‘Argylle’ Owes The Beatles an Apology For Its Godawful Needledrop

HELP!

Either “Argylle” is a movie secretly set in the future, or its producers were way too lazy to pick a Beatles song that isn’t embarrassingly illogical.

An illustration including photos of The Beatles and Bryce Dallas Howard
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Argylle is a bad movie. It’s got shoddy visual effects, disappointing action scenes, way too many twists, all stuffed into a whopping 139-minute runtime. For a movie that’s supposed to be a thrilling spy adventure, it’s astonishingly lazy, and that comes right down to something as small as its soundtrack....

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