Need yet another YA adaptation set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, à la “The Hunger Games,” “Divergent,” “The Maze Runner,” etc.? Not to worry, Netflix has that covered next month with McG‘s “Uglies,” the director’s latest project for the streamer.

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Based on the first book of Scott Westerfield‘s series of the same name, “Uglies” is set in a future that imposes cosmetic surgery on its teenage citizens before they’re allowed to enter civic society.

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“Jolt,” a Kate Beckinsale-fronted actioner helmed by “Buffaloed” director Tanya Wexler, is a film that knows what it is and owns its sense of innate disposability. There is always plenty of fun to be had with a rock-solid piece of disposable mainstream entertainment (it is still summer movie season, after all), and while it’s also undeniably fun to see Beckinsale, normally cast in more purportedly “respectable” roles, kicking all sorts of ass in her very own “John Wick,” it’s also not hard to wish that “Jolt” itself didn’t crackle with more lived-in electricity of its own.

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