Category: Suspense/Thriller

7.2

This was a weird one… None of the ideas are necessarily “new,” but this movie actually puts them on the screen. I felt like every premise included in the tight hour and a half runtime has been haunting society for the past 5-10 years, but we’ve all just let it fester instead of talking about it head-on, ya know? Or, it may be that I just finished the audiobook of Jonathan Haidt’s “Anxious Generation”… who’s to say?

Technicality-wise, this is a tight thriller. They try to add some jump scares to make it a horror flick, but they do little to take away from the “this is hitting a little too close to home” factor at play here. Fantastic acting by all involved, and phenomenal execution.

6.7

Well, it’s definitely M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter at the helm. Ishana Night Shyamalan does her best to stick the landing of the patented twist ending that is her family legacy, and mostly nails it. I was pleasantly surprised at the depth of the lore that we delved into as an audience as this movie progressed. Some of the film seemed to be a pretty blatant ripoff of other films of late, such as “A Quiet Place” or “10 Cloverfield Lane.” That being said, it’s in the depth of storytelling that this one really finds its legs. In an attempt to be overly clever, the story falls into clunky territory, but overall, it wasn’t half bad.