Film critic Jonathan Sim's review of The Front Room, an A24 horror movie starring Brandy and Kathryn Hunter.
A24 has built quite a reputation for its fantastic horror movies. This studio brought us movies like Hereditary, Climax, and The VVitch. The latter was directed by Robert Eggers, who has created other excellent films like The Lighthouse and The Northman, and he has an upcoming Nosferatu movie. Why do I bring up Robert Eggers? Did he direct this movie? No, his two brothers, Mark and Sam, made this movie. They had much to live up to, and I can’t say they did.
The Front Room is playing into the satire of how horrible our mothers-in-law can be. This script wants us to imagine being in this situation and how nightmarish that would be. But the film is at the mercy of its characters, some of the most unlikable people you can spend a blessedly brief 95 minutes with. Firstly, the couple, Belinda and Norman , has no chemistry whatsoever. I’m tired of seeing couples on screen where I have no idea why I should buy into them and their relationship.
Hunter is the one who’s going the most over-the-top in her role. She seems to be having fun with this wicked elderly lady nobody in their right mind wants to spend time with. But that’s the issue here. She’s very good at being annoying. She’s incessantly whining and doing terrible things. It gets to a point where she is so hard to watch and listen to that I wanted to cover my ears.
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