Subj : Heart of Stone is Netflix's most-watched movie again, but number
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Date : Wed Aug 23 2023 11:45:03

Heart of Stone is Netflix's most-watched movie again, but number 3 is the 
movie you shouldn't miss

Date:
Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:25:56 +0000

Description:
Here's why you should watch Russell Crowe's buddy-cop priest movie instead of 
Gal Gadot's generic action flick.

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For the second week running, Netflix's Heart of Stone was the most popular 
movie of the week globally. It's a distinctly average movie, which is why we 
picked a bunch of more exciting action movies you could watch instead . But, 
more recently, there's a new Netflix movie that's made it to number 3 on the 
most-watch list, and it's so much more fun than Heart of Stone . 

The movie is The Pope's Exorcist , which is ostensibly a horror movie. But 
it's not a very good horror movie. Instead, it turns out to be very fun 
buddy-cop movie about demon-busting priests, with Russell Crowe delivering a 
perfectly hammy performance that suggests he knows exactly what film he's 
making. 

I loved this movie so much. Although the trailer suggests it's going to be a 
straightforward horror, the actual movie lets you know almost immediately 
what kind of thing it's going to be. 

Essentially, Crowe's Chief Exorcist to the Pope is hauled up in front of a 
panel who want to take his badge and gun, until he tells them they'll have to 
take it up with his boss  the literal Pope  and ditches them. He then learns 
about a priest in Spain who's having trouble with a demonic possession and 
immediately rides his Lambretta scooter all the way there from Rome . 

Like I said, this isn't a movie that doesn't realise it's silly. It knows 
exactly what it's doing, and it wouldn't surprise me if the fact that the 
horror scenes aren't very scary was intentional, too. It'd be a slightly odd 
tonal shift, and be harder to recommend in a situation like this, where I'm 
going "everyone who likes a fun action film should take a look at this". 

There's a fun relationship between Crowe and Daniel Zovatto, who plays the 
young Spanish priest in way over his head. Together, they'll wrestle with a 
demon possessing a small boy, uncover secrets about the church locked away in 
the basement of an abbey, and then well, it takes everything up another notch 
for the finale, which is also the one part that might get a bit much for 
non-horror fans. 

Let's be clear, The Pope's Exorcist isn't secretly a masterpiece. It's not 
going in our list of the best Netflix movies , but it's maybe one of the most 
fun movies of the year if you meet it on the level it's actually aiming for. 
You might also like Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon is Netflix's answer to Star Wars 
 and it looks pretty good, actually Netflix's gorgeous Scott Pilgrim TV show 
looks like the delightful anime I didn't know I wanted Netflix is sending its 
last DVD rental subscribers an awesome final surprise



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/streaming/netflix/heart-of-stone-is-netflixs-most-wa
tched-movie-again-but-number-3-is-the-movie-you-shouldnt-miss


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