| August 8, 2025 
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Hey, movie fans! If you’re looking to have a freaky Friday in theaters, check out “Freakier Friday,” the Lindsay Lohan-Jamie Lee Curtis body swap sequel to their 2003 comedy. But if you’re looking for an even freakier Friday consider “Weapons,” the twisty new horror film from the writer-director of “Barbarian,” Zach Cregger. In her review of “Freakier Friday,” Alissa Wilkinson appreciated elements of the movie for nostalgia’s sake, and thinks fans of the previous film will, too. But, she wrote, by this movie’s midpoint, the narrative “begins to stutter, set piece after set piece, caper after caper, loping toward the inevitable moment of collision and resolution, without always maintaining the narrative tension to keep things interesting.” (You can read a round table interview with the body-swapping cast here, plus a chat with one of the film’s heartthrobs, Chad Michael Murray, here.) And in her review of “Weapons,” Manohla Dargis wrote that the director “winds you up, keeps you on edge, calms you down only to wind you up again.” But, she also wrote, “narrative delay is central to suspense, though it can be frustrating when you feel like you’re being strung along (and along) and your anticipation isn’t satisfyingly rewarded.” Enjoy your Friday, and enjoy the movies! |
