Review by C.J. Bunce
Writer-director David Koepp knows how to make a good movie. He’s written the scripts for Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park, for Raimi’s original Spider-Man, for De Palma’s Mission: Impossible, and the list goes on, to include some horror work. In You Should Have Left, Koepp adapts German writer Daniel Kehlmann’s novel of the same name. The film is from Blumhouse, which lately has produced horror that is less slasher and more appealing to mainstream viewers. You Should Have Left is a pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, and barely earns its R rating. It also proves you don’t need a big cast and big budget to make a fantastic movie. You Should Have Left, a 2020 sleeper you probably overlooked, is streaming now on the free Peacock app.
stands for the Rest in Peace Department. Like the Men in Black, this worldwide squad tries to keep the peace between our world and their world. That hidden world has simple rules: when you die you go to heaven or hell, but sometimes the dead get caught in between. It’s up to R.I.P.D. to track down those in-between souls. It sounds serious but it’s mainly all comic book fun and over-the-top action movie antics.
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