2/26/2021 Tom Holland plays a Cleveland college dropout who spirals into drug addiction and crime after coming home from Iraq with PTSD in the Russo Brothers' drama based on Nico Walker's novel. "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen. And it's a nightmare," says Tom Holland's title character early in the voiceover narration that gurgles like whitewater rapids through the Russo Brothers' Cherry. A little later, after experiencing the horror of combat as an Army medic in Iraq, he adds: "Suddenly there was nothing interesting about it anymore." You might find yourself nodding in agreement for the wrong reasons during this posturing vanity production, a drama that wears its gritty poetry on its sleeve like a macho film-school merit badge, trivializing war, trauma and addiction with its veneration of style over psychological complexity.