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Netflix’s family-unfriendly ‘Mary’ fails to inspire in a pointless Biblical epic
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Netflix’s family-unfriendly ‘Mary’ fails to inspire in a pointless Biblical epic

Film review: ‘Mary’ by D.J. Caruso, ★★☆☆☆

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Dec 14, 2024
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Biblical desert scene with a man on a horse and a women holding a baby
Joseph (Ido Tako) and Mary (Noa Cohen) with the baby Jesus cross the desert in a scene from the 2024 Netflix epic “Mary.”

The better Biblical epic films and TV shows frequently take one of two approaches to flesh out a story that may be derived from only a chapter or two of scriptural text. One is to serve as something like a Bible commentary, offering i…

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