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Goody Goody spends most of its running time making Goody’s home birth feel frighteningly plausible before abandoning medical realism for something unmistakably supernatural. By the final minutes, Sarah realizes the thing inside Goody is not behaving like a human baby, Jayson has vanished without leaving tracks, and the birth itself becomes surrounded by occult imagery…
The Napa Boys finally gives its deliberately ridiculous adventure a surprisingly clear emotional reason in the closing stretch. Puck discovers a Merlot good enough to win Napa’s wine competition, the Sommelier reveals that his amulet had been guiding her toward that discovery, and Puck is effectively chosen to lead the Napa Boys into whatever comes…
The Room Below begins as a story about grief, but Kurt Martin’s film gradually turns that grief into something far more dangerous. Mia Levine has spent a decade unable to recover from the death of her son Axel, and when Simon enters her life, she convinces herself that she has been given another chance at…
Taratoa Stappard’s Mārama begins with the familiar architecture of Victorian Gothic. A young woman arrives in an unfamiliar country after receiving a mysterious letter, enters an isolated manor and gradually realizes that the wealthy man offering her protection knows far more about her than he should. The difference is that Hawkser Manor is not haunted…
Andréa Martel spends much of Call My Agent! The Movie watching her dream project turn into exactly the kind of disaster she used to clean up for other people. Laurent Lafitte walks out, her attempt to recruit George Clooney goes nowhere, Vincent Macaigne and Laetitia Casta bring their own volatile history to the set, and…
What begins as an embarrassingly cheerful corporate retreat becomes increasingly ugly once the employees of Tío Mochales realize the weekend is tied to something much bigger than team spirit. The struggling cheese company is preparing for a major change, layoffs are hanging over the staff, and every ridiculous exercise suddenly feels like an audition for…
Prime Video’s Drawn Together begins largely as a bodyguard romance, but the mystery surrounding Marfil Cortés’ kidnapping gradually becomes just as important as her developing feelings for Sebastián Moore. By the final act, Marfil learns that almost everyone responsible for protecting her has withheld part of the truth. Sebastián is not simply a private bodyguard.…
The Lake Como wedding at the center of ‘Why Did I Get Married Again?’ nearly becomes another casualty of the same relationship mistakes that have followed this group for years. Jasmine and Wesley arrive in Italy looking like the franchise’s next stable couple, but both have been hiding serious problems from their families. Wesley cheated…
David Mackenzie’s Fuze spends much of its running time asking us to follow two crises unfolding at once. Beneath London, Major Will Tranter and his team are trying to neutralize what appears to be an unexploded World War II bomb, while Karalis uses the evacuation above ground to carry out an ambitious diamond robbery. At…
For most of Mayday, Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly believes his problem is fairly simple: survive long enough to get out of the Soviet Union. By the final act, that is no longer the whole mission. Nikolai Ustinov has risked everything to help him, Alexander Volkov wants to turn Troy into political ammunition, and Troy has…
The final stretch of The Runner pushes Maia Marten into the choice the Caller has been preparing her for all day. With Noah’s life seemingly dependent on her obedience, Maia reaches Tafa, raises the gun and fires, apparently completing the assassination she has spent the entire film trying to avoid. For a moment, the movie…
The final stretch of Netflix’s “The Secret Woman” reveals that Helene Söderberg did not abandon her wealthy family simply because she wanted another life. She fled after witnessing the death of the real Louise Andersen and discovering that the people surrounding the Söderberg shipping empire were far more dangerous than she remembered. Edmund is exposed…
