‘Tetris’: How Did a Delightful Video Game Make for Such a Boring Film?

GAME OVER

The true story about the wild international battle for the licensing rights to the popular game is an exhausting mishmash of genres and narratives—none of which are worth watching.

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There are few joys as pure as playing Tetris, which has single-handedly accounted for millions, if not billions, of hours of lost time. The game’s impossible-to-put-down nature is such that one apocryphal tale claims a Moscovian medical lab banned

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