Five New Films Critics Are Talking About

Our reviewers highlight five new films this week: How to Make a Killing, The Dreadful, Psycho Killer, I Can Only Imagine 2 and Midwinter Break. In How to Make a Killing, Glen Powell plays Becket Redfellow, who hunts down and murders his rich estranged family members in a bloody comedy directed by John Patton Ford.

The review finds the story and the actors easy to drift along with, but says the film never coheres tonally or logically; as the bodies pile up, the lightness grows forced and Powell’s likability becomes a liability. The Dreadful has Sophie Turner as Anne, who cares for a manipulative mother-in-law while waiting for her husband’s return; the review points to a mysterious knight motif and an earsplitting score and concludes that, despite big themes, the most resonant element is the film’s title.

Psycho Killer follows a highway patrol officer who tracks down the masked killer who shot her husband during a traffic stop, and the review suggests the filmmakers may have been trying to prank audiences — a gambit that didn’t work.

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