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  "id": 13428141,
  "title": "‘Ray Gunn’ Review: Brad Bird’s Latest Animated Feature Is a Giddy Retro-Futurist Noir With More Energy Than Charm",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/ray-gunn-review-brad-birds-latest-animated-feature-is-a-giddy-retro",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-10T13:45:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/ray-gunn-review-1236907330/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "“Welcome to the future,” we hear several times in “Ray Gunn” — not that the brave new world it presents is all that welcoming. Or, for that matter, particularly brave or new. The good news is we finally have flying cars and superpowered jetpacks; in other respects, though, we haven’t come a long way at […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Hollywood Reporter",
        "title": "‘Ray Gunn’ Review: Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson in Brad Bird’s Forgettable Netflix Animated Neo-Noir",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/ray-gunn-review-sam-rockwell-and-scarlett-johansson-in-brad-birds",
        "published": "2026-10-10T13:45:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "‘Ray Gunn’ Review: Brad Bird’s Dazzling Animated Noir Was Worth the Wait",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/ray-gunn-review-brad-birds-dazzling-animated-noir-was-worth-the-wait",
        "published": "2026-10-10T13:45:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Polygon",
        "title": "Ray Gunn Review: The Grown-Up Pixar Movie of Brad Bird's Dreams",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/ray-gunn-review-the-grown-up-pixar-movie-of-brad-birds-dreams",
        "published": "2026-10-10T13:45:16.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Variety",
        "title": "Brad Bird on Why He Took ‘Ray Gunn’ to Skydance Instead of Pixar: Making Animated Films for Teens and Adults ‘Shouldn’t Be a Controversial Decision’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/brad-bird-on-why-he-took-ray-gunn-to-skydance-instead-of-pixar-making",
        "published": "2026-10-10T13:55:11.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}