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Family Drama Hereditary’s fear is exhaustive, and it’s not illicit. To Hereditary, using jump scares is a cinematic sin. Instead, dread is a presence, lingering in a holding pattern …

Lock It Up The twist in Unlocked concerns the villain. Using racial profiling, via Arabic dialect and vaguely Middle Eastern-looking actors, Unlocked suggests terrorists. It’s a trap and the …

Name the Sequel XXXX During a motorcycle chase partway through XXX: Return of Xander Cage, Chinese martial arts superstar Donnie Yen jumps a transforming motorcycle into the ocean. Giving …

We're nearing formula for these stories which find a personality molding through family upheaval.

The film has fun with itself, the writing self-aware and pushing past the vanilla, “Vampires exist?” conversations to plant itself into the thick of it.