'A Man Called Otto' review: Who'd have thunk a Tom Hanks movie could make me this angry?

Dec 28 2022 by Mashable

 

"Is Tom Hanks the problem?" I wondered as I watched, mystified by A Man Called Otto. But as this feel-good dramedy about an old grouch with a heart of gold unfurled before me, it became clear Hanks is not the problem. He's a symptom of the saccharine disease that makes this adaptation of Fredrik Backman's darkly comic Swedish novel A Man Called Ove a fluffy nothing. 

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