"Consumption" (the title version I watched) nearly reaches that rare level of incompetence—bad acting, confusing storytelling, and a nonsensical plot—where it could have become unintentionally frightening or bizarrely entertaining. Unfortunately, it doesn't go far enough. Instead of turning into a so-bad-it 's-good oddity, it just ends up a confusing, unwatchable mess.
Close... but not quite there.
Sentinelle feels like the best Will Ferrell comedy—minus Will Ferrell himself. Jonathan Cohen delivers a pitch-perfect performance as François Sentinelle, an obliviously vain and gloriously incompetent police captain more obsessed with jumpstarting his singing career than solving the crimes unraveling around him.
Cohen fully commits to the role, embracing the character's absurd contradictions with reckless charm. The film thrives on sharp comic timing, outrageously violent slapstick, and just the right amount of over-the-top lunacy. It’s a proudly ridiculous ride, where…
Brandon Cronenberg has certainly delivered something more sadistic and darker than his father’s past works. However, like his father, he still offers a feature with incredible imagination, believable characters, and a thought-provoking tale, and not to forget, some exceptionally nasty body horror.
“Possessor” brings us into the works of an assassin, Tasya Vos, who can possess and control people’s bodies to terminate some high-profile targets. When she gets trapped inside the mind of one assignment, her reality and sense of…
Shifting the art styles as Dante is descending to each layer of hell is such a great concept. Yet, it feels like the quality lowered each time it shifted. Was that the artistic plan? To have you start disrespecting the following art style as it was getting closer to the bottom of hell? Are we suppose to be suffering too?
Some people way disagree with me, but I felt the quality kept diminishing as the story was being told. I…
