Synchronic just didn’t do it for me. Too sentimental in places, too budget in others. The ideas, as always, are ambitious but I prefer Benson and Moorhead’s explorations of more massive far-reaching phenomena; perhaps the focus here was a little too internal for me. I’d love to see it with those guys in the lead roles, as we’ve seen them pull this off so impressively before. I wish I hadn’t seen Anthony Mackie’s Black Mirror episode before this because I…

Dark and unsettling, Wounds wallows in the filth of human nature and what’s writhing just beneath the surface. The deadly sins are all writ large here. Armie Hammer is superb as the not-quite-loser bartender in over his head, wracked by dissatisfaction, who wouldn’t know what he wanted even if he got it... until he does. A strong supporting cast pulls it along; the pacing improves about half way into the zippy 95 minute runtime. Cosmic, culty, paranoid, insidious - this…