The Lone Ranger is a huge flop - but Disney will shrug it off

Hi-Yo silver lining! Studio set to lose $190m on new movie, but its share price rises. What's going on?

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THE best thing critics can say about The Lone Ranger, the $215 million movie that limps into British cinemas on 9 August after a mauling at the US box office, is that it's not as bad as you might expect.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Robbie Collin admits the film – which features Armand Hammer as the Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp as his American Indian sidekick Tonto – has "some serious problems". But it's also a "strange and fascinating and often thrilling movie artefact."

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