
The unwritten rules of a house taken force the protagonist to survive to the edge of the existential precipice.A metaphor about a reality that we see daily, but that also functions as a laboratory for human behavior.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
Prajdnik Awasthi’s film uses a mix of metaphor and more grounded details to tell the story of childhood sexual abuse that caused the narrator to close himself off from his father.
In a film where a Black couple is framed to be the lead characters, they still managed to get shuffled off to the sidelines. The enthusiastic cast delivers well on goofy bits- but can only go so far before they begin to fall flat.
This Christmas movie gives viewers a friendship that unexpectedly forms from a plane trip.
Being made after the death of Chadwick Boseman will be a hard but exciting ride for this Marvel entry.