There's not a bad performance in the whole thing but the clear stand out is, happily, Ralph Fiennes who is perfectly cast and serves incredible face throughout.
Ritual sequestration is also the perfect setting for what is essentially a crime drama. The sequestration and various papal rituals are presented with a kind of soft realism that is both grounding and reverential. It's a joy to see a man in full robes struggle with the vatican photocopier.
It suffers from being…
About twenty minutes in, some doomed space Chad goes "Don'tcha ever wanna leave this two-bit space-town?" and two men walk past carrying a literal bird in a cage. So the movie is not afraid to treat me like a fucking moron, which is fair enough.
-Phoebe Bridgers is in this!
-Really gets you thinking about gender.
-The horror angle is effective and new to me: the horror of preventing yourself from living your own life, and being unable to prevent that. Textually this is the horror of the closet, and of dysphoria. The whole film is in service of communicating this very specific type of horror, and it does so effectively and unambiguously.
-You don't have to be trans to feel physically injured by "Isn't…
