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‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Review: Sally Field and Lewis Pullman Help Each Other Heal in a Melodrama of Distinctly Average Intelligence

7 May 2026 at 23:00
Are people still firing up “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix? The viral success of that documentary felt like a peak-pandemic phenomenon, when some of us were sufficiently starved for connection with both the natural world and our fellow humans that its thin anthropomorphic musings rang true. If it has a place in anyone’s heart today, […]

‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Review: Sally Field and Lewis Pullman Sparkle in Netflix’s Warmly Funny, Tearfully Touching Drama

7 May 2026 at 23:00
Alfred Molina supplies voiceover narration as an octopus who sets out to fix the loneliness he senses in the aquarium's night janitors in this drama adapted from the novel by Shelby Van Pelt.
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