Midsommar’s Daytime Horror is Beautiful but Ultimately Underwhelming
There’s a glimmer of a good, even great, film lurking within Midsommar, even if it’s ultimately disappointing.
There’s a glimmer of a good, even great, film lurking within Midsommar, even if it’s ultimately disappointing.
Christmas-themed thriller Better Watch Out is a killer interrogation of a particular brand of toxic masculinity.
Is Funny Games a good film? I’m not sure. It is, undeniably, interesting, and that’s almost as important as “good.” Director Michael Haneke set out to challenge audience reactions to stylised violence and suggest the viewer’s complicity. The film is a provocation, an unsubtle attack on its own audience. I don’t know that Haneke is…