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A clever way to deal with a two-star review

The Guardian gave Legend, the new Tom Hardy film about the criminal duo of Reggie and Ronnie Kray (The Kray Twins), a two-star rating. The way that the film’s marketing team managed to hide this in plain sight in their poster is quite clever.

Even the journo who wrote the review made a note of it on Twitter:

It helped that the film also received glowing reviews from many other news outlets, of course…

Joey deVilla

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