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A year after its release,
continues to hold a certain pride of place among the roster of Netflix’s various original action films. The Charlize Theron-led streamer (directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and written by Greg Rucka from his own original comic) was a well-made, good-looking superhero action flick that also happened to arrive online at the exact moment to dull a bit of the pain of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Or, as Tom Breihan put it in his
The Old Guard still felt like a balm when it came out…beamed into our houses at a moment when many of us probably felt plenty mortal but when we were also getting used to a new kind of crushing monotony. [It] arrived right on time.”