Spa Weekend Review: The Best Jokes Happen When the Movie Calms Down
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Joe, Leon, Cathy and Touch can turn a plan to reach Teddy's boat into a street distraction, a lost gun, an accidental smoke discharge, a firefight and a burning vessel. The scene is funny because every competent decision creates room for a fresh mistake. It is tense for the same reason. Average Joe Season 2 builds much of its appeal from that collision: four people who can survive criminal disasters while behaving like they were assembled for a group project ten minutes before the deadline. Season 2 sends them to South Africa after photographs connected to Teddy raise the fear...

Every call to Stockholm’s emergency dispatch system carries a simple assumption: sending police toward danger should restore order. Here, the call itself becomes the trap, drawing officers into carefully prepared murders that turn procedure against the people who depend on it. Blood Sacrifice gets much of its tension from that reversal, and its five episodes are strongest when the same logic spreads through every part of the story. Detective Thomas Berg is placed on the case after two officers are killed while answering an emergency call. The murders resemble an earlier police death, which pushes Thomas toward a quiet parallel...

Give Anna Faris and Isla Fisher a quiet table, a ridiculous phrase like “reverse crypto,” and room to react to each other, and Spa Weekend suddenly finds the friendship its louder scenes keep chasing. Fisher’s Mel tosses out the absurdity with total confidence. Faris lets Sophie receive it with that airy, slightly delayed bewilderment that can make a pause funnier than a punch line. The exchange is small, relaxed, and specific. For a few minutes, these women seem to have known each other for years. That ease matters because the film spends so much of its time assigning each member...

James Grashow spends much of Jimmy & The Demons carving figures that seem built to survive him. Cindy Meehl understands the contradiction immediately. Her documentary watches a 79-year-old artist shape demons, apostles, burning souls, and the face of Christ while his own body grows less cooperative. The wood stays still. Jimmy does not. The project consuming him is The Cathedral, a massive commission depicting Jesus carrying a church across his back while grotesque creatures gather below. Grashow speaks about being in life’s “bottom of the ninth,” language made sharper by a previous pulmonary embolism and his private fear that this...

Jake returns to regional Victoria carrying a strange privilege: his dying father finally seems ready to love him, provided he remains someone else. Harvey Zielinski builds Sweet Milk Lake around that wound. Jake has come to see Lee after years of estrangement, yet when Lee mistakes him for his twin brother Sam, Jake lets the error survive. One hesitation becomes an entire borrowed life. The deception matters because Jake has already spent the film being told who he should be. At dinner in Melbourne, his mother deadnames him while Sam pushes the possibility of joining his real estate business. Later,...

Checkpoint games usually become harder by asking you to remember increasingly ridiculous quantities of information. Security 51 takes a smarter route. One day might require an X-ray scan, a blood-type check, and confirmation of a name and employee number. The next might throw most of that away and replace it with a personality test plus a fresh directive from management. The workload stays readable while the variables keep changing. That approach immediately distinguishes Alawar’s Area 51 bureaucracy simulator from the harsher descendants of Papers, Please. You play a security guard stationed beside an elevator descending into a classified underground facility,...
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Read moreJoe, Leon, Cathy and Touch can turn a plan to reach Teddy's boat into a street distraction, a lost gun, an accidental smoke discharge, a firefight and a burning vessel....
Every call to Stockholm’s emergency dispatch system carries a simple assumption: sending police toward danger should restore order. Here, the call itself becomes the trap, drawing officers into carefully prepared...
Give Anna Faris and Isla Fisher a quiet table, a ridiculous phrase like “reverse crypto,” and room to react to each other, and Spa Weekend suddenly finds the friendship its...
James Grashow spends much of Jimmy & The Demons carving figures that seem built to survive him. Cindy Meehl understands the contradiction immediately. Her documentary watches a 79-year-old artist shape...
Jake returns to regional Victoria carrying a strange privilege: his dying father finally seems ready to love him, provided he remains someone else. Harvey Zielinski builds Sweet Milk Lake around...
Checkpoint games usually become harder by asking you to remember increasingly ridiculous quantities of information. Security 51 takes a smarter route. One day might require an X-ray scan, a blood-type...
The cleanest piece of storytelling in Mutiny involves a Rolex and a ventilation grate. Tibu Campallo gives the watch to Cole Reed shortly before his murder, and much later Cole...
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Gayle King used part of Wednesday's "CBS Mornings" broadcast to criticize Lesley Vogel, Hayden Panettiere's estranged mother, over comments Vogel made to NBC News following the actress's death at 36....
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Checkpoint games usually become harder by asking you to remember increasingly ridiculous quantities of information. Security 51 takes a smarter...
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