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“Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald” sometimes leans too heavily on the comfort of familiar footage, moving on to a new joke when it could linger longer over some difficult questions. Even so, it captures the feeling of spending time with Norm.

Waiting for the punchline with Norm Macdonald

Ted Kaczynski’s life holds enough questions for cinema to want to return to it again and again. Netflix’s “Unabomber” approaches the same story this time through the psychological experiments of his youth. In the film, however, what Kaczynski wrote and why is pushed aside by his style. While following the traces of the character it takes as its subject, Metz’s film does all it can to avoid actually meeting him.

The film that forgets its main character: Unabomber

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Waiting for the punchline with Norm Macdonald

The film that forgets its main character: Unabomber

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