Don’t enter THE FRONT ROOM (2024) [Movie Review]
“The Front Room” is a rare miss for A24 with a frustratingly unfocused story, albeit led by a great dark comedy performance by Katheryn Hunter.
“The Front Room” is a rare miss for A24 with a frustratingly unfocused story, albeit led by a great dark comedy performance by Katheryn Hunter.
Blink Twice is a solid directorial debut from Zoe Kravitz, exuding a sense of confident storytelling with a fantastic cast and an uncompromising and often vicious story. Minor tonal and pacing issues don’t throw off what works.
JT Mollner’s Strange Darling is an electric buzz of a film, effortlessly creating a tense and shifting story, led by two strong performances and buffeted up by a great look and soundtrack.
AFRAID is dull mishmash of half-thought ideas, executed awkwardly.
Alien: Romulus is a two-hour terror ride of incredible tension through a series of fantastic sequences, a fresh monster bursting from the chest of a slightly stale franchise.
The new adaptation of James O’Barr’s graphic novel should have remained buried.
CUCKOO (2024) is a terrifying strange tale from the director of Luz.
THE BEAST WITHIN (2024) is a dramatic horror film that muddles its message with molasses-slow storytelling.
Osgood Perkin’s LONGLEGS is a strange supernatural scary serial-killer search.
The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024) is a tension-less remake of the 2008 film, intending to set off a trilogy. Let’s hope Chapters 2 and 3 are better.