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Once its foundation firms up, “Weapons” continues forward as an experiment in storytelling that’s more about the telling than it is about the story.
“Bring Her Back” shows an emerging pattern that’s definitively establishing Danny and Michael Philippou as unique cinematic storytellers.
Stop yourself before you’re tempted to watch “The Ritual,” an interminably stiff and entirely derivative bore.
The 2022 film offers a fuller, more fear-filled and eerily lingering experience than this made-for-the-masses 2024 incarnation ever does.
Little snickers are few and far between, so there’s never an overwhelming sense that the movie is aware of how cliched everything is.
Once its foundation firms up, “Weapons” continues forward as an experiment in storytelling that’s more about the telling than it is about the story.