Super-Horror Experience 1: Death and Make-up 

Writing great villains is about striking a balance between charming and evil, so we love them but also love to see them lose.

Swapped combines comedy, adventure and emotional growth while delivering one of the biggest plot twists in animation history.

Strangers in a crowd, exchanging glances, looking away, continually managing to run into each other then part ways, end up at the same diner, find they've rented the exact same vehicles, and are then made to travel together to learn once more whether they can both find genuine adoration and companionship again. This really does, in so many words, sum up the foundational gist of of this new feature film from writer Seth Reiss ("The Menu") and director Kogonada ("The Acolyte", "After Yang"). Yet, it's all only the set-up for the REAL wonder of everything that happens before, during, and in the aftermath of a magical, meaningful journey.

A wondrously imaginative, diverse, and spirited allegory of childhood and the arduousness of adulthood.

While subverting the conventions of Golden Age cinema with the characteristics of a slasher, Pearl studies the delusions of grandeur inspired by the movies.

Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.