The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
“We don’t run from fights.” Meant to be a send off for the Warrens, The Conjuring: Last Rites doesn’t exactly cast a spell or inject the audience with terror, settling instead […]
Category Archives: Mystery
Leave the World Behind (2023)
“There is no going back to normal.” We’re not immediately sure why Amanda (Julia Roberts) casts open the New York apartment curtains to waken her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke), an […]
The Wonder (2022)
“Prove it’s nonsense.” To watch The Wonder is to step into a confessional only to find no divider between the priest and the penitent; here seeing is part of the believing, […]
Nope (2022)
“It was a spectacle. People are just obsessed.” Nope isn’t a film directly about religion, but ultimately is one about faith and belief, and it begins with an Old Testament quote […]
The Batman (2022)
“They think I’m hiding in the shadows.” A grueling labor of love in its conception but mostly unfulfilling in its delivery, The Batman is a grandiose film made on a […]
Old (2021)
“It’s hard to explain.” There’s been a clear, consistent, and blatantly obvious issue with the last few movies from the self-proclaimed visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, and it’s that the […]
The Woman in the Window (2021)
“I just don’t know what you’re going for.” Delirious, derelict, and practically deranged during the unhinged and mismanaged opening chapter, The Woman in the Window is somehow one of the few […]
Scream (1996)
“What’s your favorite scary movie?” To this day Scream remains scary and hilarious, surprising and expected, and the brilliance of this 90’s cultural touchstone is how refreshingly self-aware it was […]
Antebellum (2020)
“Things are not always what they appear to be.” Deep down in its core, Antebellum is a vexing expression of the then and a cautionary tale of the now, and […]
Hubie Halloween (2020)
“Halloween’s upon us.” For his entire life, Hubie DuBois (Adam Sandler) has been the laughing stock of his beloved Salem, Massachusetts. He’s a bit dim-witted, affable, too kind and too […]
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