Ben Rosenthal

If you give this thing more than one star you're mentally defective. I gave it two because I was mentally defective enough to pay $15 to see it. Mia Goth is a great actress but why does she not get better scripts? This film is clearly scoring points off critics who are mostly uninitiated in the horror genre, love to condescend to it and thus are pleasantly shocked when it makes motions toward "art" and social commentary, and then overpraise it.This is just the same syndrome that has people lauding Midsommar, another mess. The characters are no more fleshed out, so to speak, than in any drive-in slasher flick from the period it portrays. It is not tight, meta, nor, frankly, gory enough, to merit the intense praise it's gotten. Apparently, ambition equals quality for some. And the ambitions of this one are largely insincere.