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"Companion" Review: How Great Ideas Lose out to Small Budgets
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"Companion" Review: How Great Ideas Lose out to Small Budgets

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May 28, 2025
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**Warning - this review contains some spoilers**

“Companion”, directed and written by Drew Hancock, is a blood-soaked horror of a movie that manages to get a more commonly AI-adverse audience to side with the robot. The film seems to indicate that we’re still chasing the boy-eating-girl-high that movies like “Jennifer’s Body” (2009) and “The Craft” (1996…

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