Candyman

The milder critical reaction to this is coming from people who are embarrassed to admit they don’t like Get Out that much. People largely fund, consume and talk about movies that deal with racial divide, poverty, and other capital i “Issues” to look smart. When one of those movies is smart, they feel confused. - 100% nails every element in execution. Well composed shots, electric sound design, careful approach to building intrigue. Good score too. Stylistically Saw: Spiral wanted to be this but they decided on a color palette instead of making a good movie ** **- Colman Domingo's performance goes so hard. His voice alone - Plays on “say their names” very naturally and is not politically heavy handed in the way that the letterboxd reviews imply - ghettos are preserved to defacto genocide populations through poverty is a FIRE theme for a horror movie. All the stuff about the industry of art being built on the intrigue of tragedy & death is sick, bonus points for showing it through a satire of bullshit upper class art speak. Urban legends being a phenomena that’s subconsciously birthed and maintained based on collective trauma lands really well too. “Candyman is how we deal with the fact that these things happened - that they’re still happening.” I MEAN COME ON… The only parts that felt cheap were the girlfriend still having the bad guy’s pen in her pocket in the church (feels like a worse version of the couch stuffing in ears scene from Get Out) and also that the laundromat man had no fuckin foreshadowing for the end of his arc. Best Jordan Peele movie and he didn’t even direct it