Chantal Beaulne

It manages to find something for every character to do, and even wrangle some real emotion out of its dynamics, all while depicting the cutthroat reality of capitalist art. And yet it undercuts all of that with an unending and unrelated set of jukebox songs, drowning out everything in cynical pandering. The major plotline is given over to securing rights to an older song, and one one wonders if that comes from writing this very film. It all stinks of legalese and cross promotion. Especially since most of the songs don’t fit their scenes well at all. The Planet of War has…Sky Full of Stars? That has nothing to do with war!!! At least get Violet Hill or something! “Out of this World” was supposed to be something new and fresh, in universe. But it features no original songs, and not even much downtime at all without some recent pop hit thumping you in the skull. It’s all derivative, capitalist dreck, and so blatantly.

How dare you squander a great premise like this. And that ‘twist’ at the end? No thank you, I can’t believe you’d even do that in 2017.

A wrong-headed movie that in its pursuit of feminism instead ends up tripping over sexism at every turn. It’s also bland, styleless and lacking character consistency or depth. Performances are good, however.

Eerie, then heart-stoppingly violent, it still never forgets that the real horror of an abusive relationship is how it tears away at your sense of self, your other relationships, and how it goes very much beyond the physical. The Invisible Man is a classic villain, but also the most relevant one in 2020.

Incoherent, confused, derivative. The female characters are appreciated and complex, but just as often as they are well-written they are stripped naked for the camera to savour, all while men get to keep their clothes on or are delicately framed to preserve their dignity. The editing is choppy and it took some time before I realized three different time periods were being cut to (cut as if they were happening concurrently). Little focus on character.