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Real player one5/8/2023 ![]() What the wider society is like, what it labors at, and how it feeds itself are questions that never vex the film, although we do see pizzas being ferried by drone. Wade and Alice dwell in the Stacks, a shantytown of piled-up trailer homes in Columbus, Ohio. I guess nephews and nieces feel semidetached, without the tug of close ties, and thus more eligible for adventure. James has two before he finds the Giant Peach. What is it with aunts? Peter Parker has one. It is 2045, years after “the bandwidth riots,” and Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), an orphan in his late teens, lives with his aunt Alice (Susan Lynch). ![]() ![]() The screenplay, by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline, is based on Cline’s novel of the same name, but there ends any connection with the written word. Three months after delivering “ The Post” in time for Christmas, Steven Spielberg is back with another parcel, bearing the label “Ready Player One.” Nothing will ever match his uncanny-and, you might say, disturbing-transition from “ Jurassic Park” to “ Schindler’s List” within a single year, but it’s still quite a hop from “The Post,” a soaring liberal anthem in praise of print, to “Ready Player One,” a film in which nobody gives the faintest sign of needing or wishing to read.
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