Depressing and cliched,this new Hellboy is just too much
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Depressing and cliched,this new Hellboy is just too much

In a story drawn directly from one of the comic books,Hellboy:The Crooked Man takes us a long way from Guillermo del Toro’s slick vision of the franchise.

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