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Editor’s Note: The following piece contains spoilers for “Tetris,” which is currently on Apple TV+ “Tetris” gets very close to perfectly portraying the complex legal troubles its creator and other parties had to jump through for the rights of the puzzle game in this unusual biopic. Apple’s new biopic is directed by Jon S. Baird...

Editor’s Note: The following piece contains spoilers for “Tetris,” which is currently on Apple TV+ “Tetris” gets very close to perfectly portraying the complex legal troubles its creator and other parties had to jump through for the rights of the puzzle game in this unusual biopic. Apple’s new biopic is directed by Jon S. Baird...

The Apple TV+ movie Tetris and the Air Jordans film Air are a new breed of film, the on-brand biopic glorifying a product and its mythology.

Although it's based on the story of the famous and popular Russian-created computer game that was loaded on every 8-bit Nintendo Game Boy sold in 1989 (and that was a lot), the film plays like a caper movie, and it's mostly brilliant.

"Tetris" (streaming on Apple TV+), starring Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers, is the origin story of the 1980s video game. But how much of it is real?

Taron Egerton plays the guy who helped hook the world on the most addictive video game ever.

Taron Egerton fails to do much with the nostalgic examination of how Tetris, the classic game, came out of Cold War Moscow into the US