Screen Test: The Outsider is a solid crime drama, while The Witcher is good-enough facsimile of Game Of Thrones

Henry Cavill plays the title character in The Witcher, a man named Geralt of Rivia, who possesses mutant supernatural abilities. PHOTO: KATALIN VERMES/NETFLIX
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