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Companion 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Like Her, or even Ex-Machina, Companion is really a Bildungsroman slapped with a coat of genre paint that can look a bit sci-fi, a bit horror, a bit thriller, depending on the scene. Iris is naive. Iris becomes aware. Iris learns and grows. Iris severs the ties to her partner-parent. Iris self-determines. And because this is such a familiar path, especially when coupled with threadbare empowerment feminism, a film that should be full of action can drag. That delightful tension…
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