In the hands of filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whimsy is practically an automatic assault weapon. That doesn’t mean his pictures aren’t sometimes inspired. At their best — as with A Very Long Engagement (2004) or the The City of Lost Children (1995) — they can be wondrous, otherworldly mechanical inventions, the kind of dark, glittering things Jules Verne might have dreamed up if he’d fallen asleep watching Mulholland Dr.
Final Destination is a reminder of our mortality.
‘It Follows’ still lurks.
The Parenting Review: It starts off as a fun horror-comedy with a great cast, but loses its charm halfway through. The laughs fade, the scares feel predictable, and by the end, it’s just another forgettable haunted house story.
