Dust Bunny (now streaming on HBO Max) marks Bryan Fuller’s rather audacious jump from television to film. The creator of Pushing Daisies, Hannibal and numerous Star Trek series wrote and directed this all-style-all-the-time way-offbeat uncategorizable fantasy/comedy/drama about a little girl trying in vain to convince her neighbor that her parents were eaten by the monster under her bed. Said neighbor is a Leon-like hitman pro played by Fuller’s Hannibal Lecter, Mads Mikkelsen, who maintains a stern mug that balances out the considerable charms of his damn-she’s-CUTE co-star Sophie Sloan. Whether the style overwhelms their work is the question.
DUST BUNNY: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
The Gist: For reasons we’ll never know or understand, a breeze sneaks into little Aurora’s (Sloan) bedroom, accumulating dust into a growing tumbleweed that settles under her bed and takes the shape of a certain long-eared critter. Perhaps it took
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