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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Entertainment
Michael Phillips

Review: ‘Morbius’ stars Jared Leto as a Marvel vampire. Call him the poor man’s batman, lowercase

You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see a movie where Jared Leto turns into a better actor.

Meantime there’s “Morbius,” where Leto plays not Batman but a man who turns into a bat man, vampire blood coursing through veins that manage to over- and under-act simultaneously.

In the space between those words “bat” and “man” lies every indulgent, go-nowhere … unmotivated … pause favored by Leto, who won an Academy Award for “Dallas Buyers Club” and who went on to, among others, play the hideous Joker of the hideous 2016 “Suicide Squad” destined to be swept under Joaquin Phoenix’s rug.

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