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“Love” Gets Freaky

Navarrette shines as someone simultaneously terrifying and sympathetic (Massive Spoilers)

Baron “Bear” Bailey (Michael Johnston) is a young man with a crush on his friend, Nikki Freeman (Inde Navarrette). He’s not sure if she feels the same way, and instead of talking to her about it like an adult, he uses a “One Wish Willow” toy to make her fall in love with him “more than anyone else in the entire world.” It works. However, it isn’t long before Nikki’s behavior becomes clingy, erratic, and eventually violent.

Sheriff Nobody

Odenkirk and McLeod shine in an enjoyable action movie (spoilers)

Ulysses Richardson (Bob Odenkirk) is a lawman with a rather laissez-faire attitude towards policing. He’s been appointed the interim sheriff of Normal, Minnesota. It’s a small town full of quirky characters. The kind of place that looks all cozy, but isn’t nearly as idyllic in reality. Something that Ulysses discovers when a bank robbery exposes the town’s big secret.

And they were…

An amusing comedy (spoilers)

Devon Weisz (Sadie Sandler) is a lonely soon-to-be college freshman who longs for a best friend. She has her brother Alex (Aidan Langford), but Devon needs someone who isn’t biologically related to her. Her prayers seem answered when she meets the cool, carefree Celeste Durand (Chloe East). However, problems start to arise after Devon asks Celeste to be her roommate.

Odysseus In Paradise

An action movie letdown (Spoilers)

Much like another character created by Derek Kolstad, Hutch Mansell (Bod Odenkirk) has to deal with “dipping his pinkie” back into his previous life come the sequel. He’s returned to his job as an “auditor” to pay off this massive debt, but that’s led to him working long hours away from his family. So, he decides to take his wife, Becca (Connie Nielsen), his father, David (Christopher Lloyd), and his kids, Brady (Gage Munroe) and Sammy (Paisley Cadorath), on a vacation.

Predator

An okay thriller (spoilers)

Sasha (Charlize Theron) is an adrenaline junkie whose husband Tommy (Eric Bana) passes away during a freak accident on one of their adventures. Five months later, she travels to her husband’s native Australia for another excursion, venturing alone in this remote park where several visitors have gone missing. What could possibly go wrong?

In Bad Days

A remake that’s fine (spoilers)

Warning: This article contains Scream series spoilers

In this remake of I onde dager or The Trip (which is a way worse title if you know what I onde dager translates as), Dan (Jason Segel) and Lisa (Samara Weaving) are a couple going through some difficulties. They travel up to a remote cabin ostensibly to reconnect. In reality, Dan is planning on murdering Lisa. However, his plan quickly goes awry when he discovers that Lisa has not only caught on, but is planning to kill him as well.

I Contain Multitudes

A beautiful movie about life (Spoilers)

The Life of Chuck is a 2024 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novella of the same name. It was written and directed by Mike Flanagan. The plot is hard to describe beyond saying it follows the life of one Charles “Chuck” Krantz, played as an adult by Tom Hiddleston. I should probably warn Hiddleston fans that he doesn’t appear as much as you might think, partly because he’s one of four actors who play Chuck throughout his life.

Clearest Blue

A good if pragmatic adaptation (spoilers)

In this film adaptation of Jordan Harper’s novel of the same name, Nate McClusky (Taron Egerton) is a recently released ex-con who’s been marked for death by Aryan Steel, a gang of meth-dealing white supremacists. Worse, the greenlight was issued not only against him but also against his family. Though he’s too late to save his wife, he ends up going on the run with Polly Huff (Ana Sophia Heger), the daughter he barely knows.

Please Please Please

An entertaining enough thriller (Spoilers)

Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is a young woman with a dark and troubled past. Living out of her car and desperate for a job, she accepts a position as a housemaid for the Winchester family. The wife, Nina (Amanda Seyfried), is the boss from hell. The husband, Andrew (Brandon Sklenar), is a handsome hunk. The daughter, Cece (Indiana Elle), belongs in a Children of the Corn movie. The groundskeeper, Enzo (Michele Morrone), seems suspicious.

Lady Orpheus

An interesting rock opera (Massive Spoilers)

O’Dessa is a rock opera set in a post-apocalyptic world that’s been all but ruined by pollution. One of the last civilized places, though I use civilized very loosely, is Satylite City, which is ruled over by a media dictator named Plutonovich (Murray Bartlett). Meanwhile, O’Dessa Galloway (Sadie Sink), a dirt farmer and the seventh child in a line of traveling musicians called the ramblers, has been prophesied to save the world.