I love the originality of telling a haunted house movie from the perspective of the ghost. I'd been enamored by the idea since I first saw the trailer and am generally a fan of the director, Steven Soderberg. If you're not swept up in the uniqueness of the camera that seems to float through the house and piecing together the dynamics of this family, it's gonna be a long movie for you. I could see how the pacing would be problematic for some of the audience. It takes its time establishing what's going on in this family of two teenagers and a husband and wife that are struggling. Ultimately, I wasn't very satisfied by the antagonist of the story and I wish they had gone in another direction there. I could see myself watching it again, though.

I wanted this to be a sleeper hit. The kind of movie that might fly under the radar because of it's February release and it's atypical leading man, but I'd be proud to show it off as a hidden gem to friends. Instead it's more of a movie I'm likely to hardly remember in a couple of years. It's not awful. It's plot is overly simplistic and it kind of meanders its way through its runtime, even while giving ample time for extended fight scenes. Some of the jokes land. Some of them don't. It's ultimately derivative of better examples of this kind of movie - Kill Bill, John Wick, Hard Candy - but it's more charming than the average knockoff, which I attribute to a fun cast.

I think this movie shows its age a little more than the original Hellraiser. Like most Clive Barker driven stories it's dark and moody, but a little bit of a hodgepodge of other things you've seen before assembled into one horror-adventure. What makes this movie work is the talented cast playing the Night Breed characters. It's because they're all so inventive that you care about the story that's woven around them. I can see why it's earned a cult following among people who like these kinds of movies, but I don't think it's so good that it's transcendently entertaining to a mainstream audience.

A perfectly watchable, if a bit forgettable comedic slasher movie. It's better than I thought it would be, but not the kind of movie I feel like I need to see more than once or tell my friends about. It picks its moments to be brutal and have its fun at the expense of the many tropes in this genre. If you're a fan of slasher films, I thought it was worth checking out.

The continuation of the Isaiah Bradley story beginning in Falcon and the Winter Soldier woven into a stealth Incredible Hulk sequel didn't really hit the mark for me. Sure, it had moments of cleverness and fun, but overall it just didn't feel like the same amount of care was put into this Marvel movie that you'd come to expect from prior ones. It's funny to me that this movie had so many writers when it felt like the script still needed another pass from someone who had a better knack for dialogue. The editing was choppy. I was pleased enough with the action and fight choreography, but I've heard from others who didn't like it as much as I did. Makes me concerned for the future of the MCU going forward.