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REVIEW: IMDB 7.2, Rotten Tomatoes 75% critics, 90% audience score, Metacritics 65 critics, audience 71


Why did they rate it so highly? Unlike the person who posted two threads with lots of posts here, these people ACTUALLY SAW THE FILM.

As I posted elsewhere, it does not appear to be a horror film... until it becomes one. It was released for Halloween weekend. It is a British film that did not have $40 million to invest in marketing. See it in a theater while you still can. Do not watch the trailer, which spoils the film.

The story is about a young woman, played by Thomasin McKenzie, who really likes music and fashion from the 1960s. She moves to London to attend a fashion school. She begins to have dreams about a woman living there in the 1960s, played by Anya Taylor-Joy. A lot of memorable songs from that time are played. That era was much more misogynistic than later decades. Opportunities for women were limited, and often based on the whims of men. We see one woman and a small group of people she encountered, not the entire world.

The audience sees what happened back then, and how it is tied to the present. Some critics and posters here complained about the last act. I thought it worked really well. If the whole film went in another direction, it would have been boring and pointless. You are in for a ride!

I think this British film will be nominated for BAFTA awards, including best supporting actress for the elderly Diana Rigg. She passed away at age 82 before it was released. (Some people might remember her from HBO's Game of Thrones, or when she was younger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).) Margaret Nolan, a Sean Connery Bond girl, plays an elderly barmaid. She also passed away at age 76 before the film was released.

The BAFTAs may have instituted a silly race quota system for 2021, which might account for the black male character. But this film involves a fashion school. If they wanted to go all-out woke, they could have easily added a group of gay males to that class. They just didn't have time for that, and still tell this story. There are some great twists. One involves a white male good guy. So they are NOT all evil.

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Digital sales began today, 4 January 2022.

It was a financial disappointment:
Budget $43,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada $10,127,625
Opening weekend US & Canada $4,178,460 Oct 31, 2021
Gross worldwide $22,957,625

I liked the film, especially its ties to the 1960s with music from that era.

It did not make sense that the woman from the 1960s did not move on to somewhere else. She had the look and singing ability and should have found others to make her at least locally lucrative.

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She probably had nowhere to go at that point, living from paycheck to paycheck, maybe even in debt/favors to stay where she was. She'd risked being homeless trying to leave at that point, and she would have actually had to leave the whole area, cause certainly at that point, everyone in the area would know that she was just a glorified whore.

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Critics loved it because it’s woke af, but thankfully it was a flop for the same reason.

When they stop with the Woke messaging I’ll consider paying to see movies again. Until then, I’ll watch for free and only pay to buy films that are very good and non-woke - a very rare thing in today’s clown-world.

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