Here is the thesis, and I am going to state it up front because I think it is correct and I do not want to sneak up on it: Benny & Joon is the last American movie that sincerely believed being weird was a form of goodness. Not a symptom. Not a brand. Not a … Read more
Sweetheart (2019) gets a lot of mileage out of a simple fear: the ocean is scary as hell. J. D. Dillard’s film begins as a stripped-down survival thriller, following Jenn (Kiersey Clemons) after she washes ashore on a seemingly empty island. It quickly turns into a monster film, and the
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