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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: South China Morning Post.

  1. Hank LedgerClayface, the new DC spin-off, is a grisly, vengeance-fuelled body-horror thriller with no sign of Batman, and the South China Morning Post gives it three and a half stars out of five.

  2. Hank LedgerFolks, I've read the reviews, and I want to talk about what the critics are actually upset about. Because it's not the gore.

  3. Hank LedgerPoint one.

  4. Hank LedgerThe Hollywood Reporter says one scene happens in an airplane lavatory, during severe turbulence, with the lead trying to cut skin off his own eyes.

  5. Hank LedgerThink about that.

  6. Hank LedgerPoint two. The film is rated R and called not for the squeamish. Fine. That's what the R is for. Nobody's lying to you here.

  7. Hank LedgerPoint three. IndieWire's critic wants to know whether the shape-shifting is subconscious, or whether the guy has to touch you. That's the complaint.

  8. Hank LedgerThat's the note.

  9. Hank LedgerA man is carving at his own eyelids in a moving aircraft, and the question on the table is the paperwork. Really?

  10. Hank LedgerBecause Clayface has been around since nineteen-forty. Eighty-some years. Somebody could have written the rules down by now, and nobody did.

  11. Hank LedgerAnd Variety says it's good, gross fun, no homework required.

  12. Hank LedgerVariety says no homework required. Indiewire handed in three paragraphs on whether he has to touch you.

  13. Hank LedgerA man cuts the skin off his own eyes in a plane bathroom, and the critic says, fine, but does he have to touch me.

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