This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I desperately wanted to like this, but it’s such a flip flop of high highs and low lows that you might get whiplash.
Performances are either great (Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, even Ralph Ineson) or distractingly camp (Aaron TJ, Simon McBurney and sadly Lily-Rose).
The film shows that it can do eerie, thoughtful and oppressive atmosphere, but often falls into modern horror tropes of jumpscares and fakeouts, which in a film like this with such care paid to the aesthetic…
New girl should have shot the script before shooting the mockingbird
This film is difficult to pin down.... at points there are moments where it feels like its building to something satisfying and enjoyable, however it gets too caught up in the political points of racial segregation and for lack of a better term "girl power" that it ultimately sacrifices an engaging plot or characters in a bid to be politically moving. This is a slog.
Of course racism is bad. Of course segregation still exists. But rather than following Get…
