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‘Thor’ Made A.O. Scott Want to Die

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Says he considered jumping under bus after movie.

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Among A.O. Scott’s first instincts after seeing Thor, he writes in The New York Times, was to seek shelter “under a passing bus.” Director Kenneth Branagh’s pop-Shakespeare does nothing to save the new superhero flick: Thor, Scott writes, “is an example of the programmed triumph of commercial calculation over imagination.”...

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