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Spiral: From the Book of Saw Gets Twisted in Its Own Formulas: Review

<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-12T19:26:47+00:00“>May 12, 2021 | 3:26pm ET The Pitch: It’s been a decade since John Kramer, aka Jigsaw, spent years terrorizing unsuspecting citizens with a dizzying, disgusting array of homespun torture traps meant to enact karmic justice for their personal failings. Now, a copycat is on the loose, and this time he’s targeting crooked cops, with a mission to “reform the police” (more on that later) and purge it of its corruption. Hot on the case is an idealistic but disillusioned cop named Zeke Banks (Chris Rock), the son of the department’s former chief (Samuel L. Jackson), already a pariah for turning in a crooked cop several years prior. Now he and his fresh-faced ...