TO LESLIE (2022)
“She is master of the screen and drug me into the dusty distance”
Read MoreWITHOUT FILM, SOMETHING SLEEPS INSIDE US AND SELDOM AWAKENS. THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.
“She is master of the screen and drug me into the dusty distance”
Read More“a solid workmanlike tight 90”
Read More“It’s empty scaffolding propping up a digital rotted foundation”
Read More“left adrift in its empty playground of trivial violence and vacant reflection”
Read More“a film that, beyond the short story premise of intrigue and stakes, falls genuinely flat”
Read More“Once implanted with Lil’ Jesus, the woman is taken by a goblin/troll/demon/rock man to a cage and lowered to the upper ring of hell (?) to have a smoke worm of Satan wriggle into her. I have no idea…”
Read More“not much pops story, effects, or franchise wise”
Read More“Their (acting) chops let the flavor of the cinematic meal broil.”
Read More“Chalemet is at his twinKing finest”
Read More“maudlin and measured.”
Read More“I just hoped for more outright levity than the blood from a stone histrionic humor we pick out of the vomit and sandy crumbs”
Read More“breathes a dying vigor into the celluloid whisper of a conflict long past”
Read More“Surprisingly delightful oasis for parents in a sea of drudgery and inequities.”
Read More“a devilish little horror escapade with some capitalistic & mechanical creep”
Read More“a tapestry of disdain and depression; for progenitor, protagonist, and participant.”
Read More“Broker hums his heartsong well”
Read More“disturbing, engrossing, and mind/genre bending muscular revulsion of a film”
Read More“Hitchcock meets In the Mood for Love (and Death).”
Read More“one of my most thoughtful experiences after a film of the year”
Read More“a pseudo-modern folk philosophical dark farce”
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