A decently suspenseful murder mystery and courtroom procedural. Harrison Ford gives a good lead performance albeit a bit tepid.
While it has a bit of a slow start, it eventually picks up when the trial begins. The ending is rather ham fisted in my opinion but it doesn't take too much away from the movie.
If you enjoy courtroom movies as much as I do, I'd say give this a watch.
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I can't help but feel like this movie was making me a sandwich for 90 minutes and right before I took a bite it slapped it out of my hands onto the floor.
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"You once were a ve-gan, but now you will be gone."
Still one of the best lines in cinematic history.
I love how Ari Aster disguises this movie at first as a drama about a family unraveling from tragedy and grief, and how loss can unearth deep-seated emotion and trauma...
Only for him to weave in this supernatural element to the movie that consistently grows more and more pervasive over the runtime of the film.
By the end of it I had no idea if I was watching the delusions brought on by schizophrenia (of which the main character's mother…
