What if Tim Burton made John Wick? This near-perfect thriller is officially streaming on HBO Max

Mads Mikkelsen slays monsters in the ultra-stylish film If you just read the plot synopsis, Hannibal and Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller’s feature film directorial debut sounds a lot like Luc Besson’s 1994 film Léon: The Professional. Both feature young girls who ask a hitman who happens to live next door to kill the monster that orphaned them. But despite those similarities, Dust Bunny is nothing like Besson’s moody thriller. Fuller has instead crafted what John Wick might have looked like if it were made as a collaboration between Tim Burton and Wes Anderson. It’s a bizarre, ultra-stylish fairy tale definitely worth watching now that it’s available to stream on HBO Max. Fuller has always had a penchant for visual flair, from the dreamy world of Pushing Daisies to the mythic scope of American Gods to the artistic kills of Hannibal. But he’s really outdone himself in Dust Bunny, which beautifully captures the feel of being trapped in a childhood nightmare. Eight-year-old Aurora (Sophie Sloan) lives in New York in a whimsically decorated apartment that feels like a fusion between a dollhouse and the eponymous building in Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. While her parents as