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.

“The Home” has the appearance of a slow-burn snore, but its essential organs are grown out of grindhouse gruesomeness and B-movie battiness.

No matter what a viewer gets out of the movie, there’s an inescapable sense that its disparate parts are still missing key pieces.

A fast-food meal of moderately entertaining suspense that’s easy to eat, if relatively plain-tasting, in a quick 95-minute wrapper.

“M3GAN 2.0” should be much more fun than it is. On paper, the details powering its premise probably sounded like a real riot.