Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.

Nat Wolff
as Light Turner

LaKeith Stanfield
as L

Margaret Qualley
as Mia Sutton

Shea Whigham
as James Turner

Willem Dafoe
as Ryuk (voice)

Jason Liles
as Ryuk

Paul Nakauchi
as Watari

Jack Ettlinger
as Kenny Doyle

Matthew Kevin Anderson
as Agent Young

Chris Britton
as Peltz
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_Death Note_ - _★★★★_ While different from the anime, and surely the manga, Death Note is an enjoyable adaption. If you watched the anime, you know that the series’s first episode titled “Rebirth” starts out in the Shinigami Realm. We unfortunately do not see this scene or ever visit the Shinigam...
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Despite tentative hopes, the Netflix live action movie for Death Note was painful to watch. Watching with my husband and another friend who was a fan of the original anime, we switched it off after 10 minutes soon after Light's girly screaming. I did manage to play the rest on my own while multi-tas...