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 The worst thing about Netflix’s mysteriously abandoned thriller Rebel Ridge is its abysmally generic title. It sounds like an anonymous action slop starring a lesser-known Hemsworth, and one might expect that, along with a brawn-over-brains trailer and a barely-there PR campaign, it’s another of the streaming platform’s low-impact time-wasters.  But there’s a lot more to chew on here, a full three-course meal appearing on a platform that typically distracts us with snacks, and one of the most damning arguments you can make against a big-name filmmaker associating with them, a film that deserved the most and was somehow hurt by the least. Director: Jeremy Saulnier Writer: Jeremy Saulnier Stars: Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb Writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, who came to prominence with Blue Ruin and then the magnificently twisted Green Room, worked with Netflix for his uneven adaptation of Hold the Dark in 2018, a film that at least had a premiere at the Toronto fil...