“We’re in the thick of an ongoing movie star crisis and it’s one that no amount of “Glen Powell grinning on a red carpet” images can easily fix.
“His rise might have been a rare spot of good news on that front but it’s otherwise been a rough period for the emergence of true, crowd-drawing leads, a problem across many genres that’s recently been felt most in the action sphere.
“The last year has seen Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Henry Cavill, Bill Skarsgård, Dev Patel and, last month, Ke Huy Quan face a mixture of critical shrugs and audience lack of interest (Love Hurts in particular, bombing with $15m globally and an 18% RT rating) while those more established, such as Gerard Butler, Keanu Reeves and Jason Statham, have continued to dominate.”
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