75%User score 75 percent
The Alienist
2018 · Drama · Crime
User Score
777 votes
With no power comes no responsibility.
Ben Reilly, an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, is forced to grapple with his past life as the city's one and only superhero.
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popcar2
June 1, 2026
Surprisingly good Noir story wrapped in a Spiderman skin. I really love that they doubled down on the theme rather than making it _just another superhero story._ The whole thing was really well put together. Everybody's talking about Nic Cage (well deserved) but all the actors killed it in their roles. I especially loved Li Jun Li as the femme fatale, she stole the scene every time. The cinematography was also excell…
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June 2, 2026
Spider Noir is like Batman, but without the money. I'll be concise. The series is good, like writing, directing, acting are good. But there is a problem with the Spider-Noir costume that lacks common sense. Unfortunately, they choose the absurd costume that doesn't work in real world. The perfect costume of Spider-Noir is from the videogame "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions". It has realistic leather pilot jacket and…
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GenerationofSwine
June 5, 2026
Disney could learn from this. It isn't woke, it doesn't lecture to the audiance, at no point in time does it go out of it's way to attack white people, straight people, men, conservatives, Christians, Jews, or any other group that it's popular to hate on the tolerant left.... ... and, it doesn't take a hard right lean either, not that many things in Hollywood do, but I don't want to see right wing politics anymore th…
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July 26, 2026
Practically everything I would have wanted out of a whole show featuring a live action version of Nicolas Cage's "Spider-Noir" character from the animated Spider-Verse films. While this version of "the Spider" is not quite as comically goofy as the iteration seen in Into the Spider-Verse, it works perfectly for this live-action world, which is more grounded, gritty, and real-feeling, yet still with plenty embracing o…
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