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The Revenant

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The Revenant  (2016) A Review by Grant Kanigan Directed by: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Written by:  Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith,                inspired by Michael Punke's novel Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy,             Will Poulter & Domhnall Gleeson Rating: 14A Release Date: January 8th, 2016, (Wide) Leonardo DiCaprio faces death in The Revenant © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.      Revenant, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary is "a person who has returned, especially supposedly,  [sic] , from the dead." Using this as the title of your latest blockbuster is an intellectually daring and financially risky move. The allusions are enormous; is Hugh Glass, (Leonardo DiCaprio), a Christ figure? Suffering for the countless sins of the white man; a personification of the injustice thrown upon indigenous Native Americans when Europeans originally (re)settled in what is now Canada and the United States? Is