Impossible for the movie to end halfway through, but that first half was Criterion Collection type shit.

It’s a French movie that’s shot entirely in one take. Cool, sure, but it’s actual triumph is in the way it approached zombies with a Patient Zero bent.

I really wanted this to be better than it was, but the cuckoo conceit (no spoilers) didn’t work for me. It did have an all-time scene towards the end when Hunter Schafer’s Gretchen has to get out of a sticky situation (no spoilers), though.

How many times can you scream in space? Alien: Romulus found new ways. Totally enjoyable with one of my favorite Go For It endings in 2024.

I’m a sucker for Catholic horror. I’m a sucker for Sydney Sweeney.

I get that this movie isn’t for everyone. I appreciate that Yorgos Lanthimos is doing everything he wants to do. I appreciate the actors taking these swings. But it’s not just weird for weird’s sake, to me. There’s real tension that’s created in the anthological stories here, and it’s achieved in a way almost no other filmmaker could do with the same material.

This one also belongs in the I Wish This Was Better Than It Was category. It’s a near-impossible task to follow up the X / Pearl duo, but Ti West still makes a great homage film. And thank you for bringing Animotion’s Obsession back into my life.

Obscure Austria-Germanic co-production taken from historical texts about a woman’s descent into suicide. A revelation of a slow burn.