Praise with its homework shown. He names the influences a film is braiding rather than calling it influential, and on Weapons he praises the script for refusing to connect its dots and then connects them himself, which is a critic arguing with his own point in public.
Is a timeless story of resistance, one that playfully weaves together influences as broad-reaching as the true story of Weather Underground and cinematic depictions of rebellion, but it's also a remarkably propulsive, fun, and eventually moving piece of work about the human beings caught up in the chaotic machine.One Battle After Another90
One of the greatest strengths of Cregger's ambitious script is its abject refusal to connect every dot in the manner that so much 'elevated horror' has done in recent years. Still, it's not overly difficult to read the inciting incident of Weapons as a school shooting allegory.Weapons85