Movie Reviews
What’s new to theatres and streaming this weekend: August 12-14
Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies slays, vampire film Day Shift would not and Fall is a variety of enjoyable
Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies
(Halina Reijn)
Think about the teenagers from Euphoria hacking one another to bits. That’s what Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies goes for however in a means that’s by some means much less gross and traumatic, and extra enjoyable. The Gen Z slasher comedy, which ditches the “elevated horror” pretensions of its contemporaries with out sacrificing smarts, stars Borat 2’s Maria Bakalova, Amandla Stenberg and Pete Davidson as younger individuals partying into the evening throughout a hurricane. The lights exit and, one after the other, they flip up useless, leaving the surviovrs pointing the finger at one another. The precise style mechanics are deflating. The film, directed by Reijn and written by Cat Individual creator Kristen Roupenian, is at its greatest when observing how these younger, performative-woke-but-actually-toxic sorts continuously really feel like they’re underneath assault, which seems to be a giant motive why they’re at one another’s throats. 95 minutes. Now enjoying in theatres. NNN
Fall
(Scott Mann)
Two younger daredevil ladies defy logic and gravity by climbing a rusty 2,000-foot tower to seek out some phony emotional decision of their lives. By no means thoughts the unconvincing motives. Fall is so entertaining that the predictably dumb parts change into tiny specks seen from means up within the sky. Mann, directing with verve, crafts this trip like a horror film, with sufficient soar scares, gory sights and twists that make you howl whereas hanging on to its each vertigo-inducing body. 107 minutes. Now enjoying in theatres. NNNN
Day Shift
(J.J. Perry)
Jamie Foxx stars as a bounty hunter who doesn’t play by the principles on this vampire slayer/buddy cop film. He’s saddled with Dave Franco’s mousy union rep, who’s tasked with ensuring vampire hunters don’t color exterior the traces when decapitating their bounty. There’s loads that’s fallacious with this film – between its chaotic plot and hoary clichés. However that might have gone down simpler had there been some chemistry between the 2 leads. Foxx is charming all on his personal. However the dynamic between him and Franco is grating. The one factor Day Shift has going for it’s the battle choreography the place foldable vampires throw down in short bursts of amusing and gross-out motion. 114 minutes. Now streaming on Netflix. N
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Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Bernardo Badillo; directed by John Patton Ford.
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