‘Backrooms’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve Get Lost in A24’s Creepy but Underbaked Liminal Horror

‘Backrooms’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve Get Lost in A24’s Creepy but Underbaked Liminal Horror

Appropriately for a surreal realm comprised of inexplicable angles that stretch across impossible dimensions and seem, as one explorer puts it, cobbled together by “construction workers on acid,” the Backrooms, as a premise, have no precise parameters. You might think of it less as a story than a shared alternate reality, originating as a creepypasta…

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Mark Duplass Defends ‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Amid Speculation About 20-Year-Old Filmmaker’s Role

Mark Duplass Defends ‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Amid Speculation About 20-Year-Old Filmmaker’s Role

Mark Duplass is defending Backrooms director Kane Parsons in light of social media speculation about the 20-year-old filmmaker and YouTuber’s role on the forthcoming horror movie. Hitting theaters Friday from A24, Backrooms stars Duplass alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell in the film about a therapist tracking down a missing patient…

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Director Joachim Trier Interview on ‘Sentimental Value’

Director Joachim Trier Interview on ‘Sentimental Value’

For his latest film, Joachim Trier is playing it straight. In his career to date, the Danish-Norwegian director has often pivoted between realism and moments where irony and the surreal puncture the everyday. Think of the dream-like narrative in his debut Reprise (2006) where the lives of two aspiring Oslo writers are told via jump-cut flash-forwards and imagined futures…

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