Next Exit is a movie for Mike Flanagan fans, with Mali Elfman putting some of the horror filmmaker's pet themes to great use in a two-hander where the afterlife is proven real. agracru's review:
or king-sized events a la [insert Marvel movie title here], Gillan casts a long shadow in her roles—even when they require she only appear on screen for a mere handful of minutes.smartly employs her as mostly a background figure who’s had meteoric impact on culture and mankind writ large, including skyrocketing suicide and homicide rates. Elfman latches onto Rose and Teddy instead.a sardonic tone. As Teddy, Kohli lends it wiseass British wit and heart.
“Thank you for the help,” reads a crumpled note Teddy pries from the hands of a man who leaps in front of their car. It’s a sad fact of our contemporary cultural apathy that suicide rates are what they are in the United States. It’s a sadder fact inthat suicide functions as a literal escape instead of a figurative one, and that societal stresses we’re familiar with in 2022 are felt in Elfman’s script.
, which likewise bucked its genre’s conventions: Rather than sticking to a broad scope, Edwards focused on two everyday people pushed together by chance while crossing perilous territory. Elfman’s structure is loose, but assured in where it’s heading. There’s intimacy to her filmmaking that invites the audience to care for Rose and Teddy even when they’re at their most acerbic, which just makes their sweeter moments all the better.
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