Joel Hilkeβs review published on Letterboxd:
Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist (Round 4)!... 35 of 35
--> Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actresses
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Toss Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, and Christoph Waltz into a meat grinder and you get the aptly titled Carnage. A film that uses its claws to verbally mangle everyone in the room.
I should lower the rating on this one because 70 minutes of festering anger should have annoyed me more. But it didn't... because the writing and the actors were great at digging their nails in and getting under the skin.
Its a film about two couples pretending to exist in polite society after one of their kids whacks the other. They have to calmy sit down and decide how to deal with this childhood trauma... while exposing themselves as terrible people themselves.
I was rooting for the visiting couple to just leave. Get away from this toxic nonsense... but its a movie that needs to keep everyone in the same pressure cooker for our enjoyment. The acting is fantastic as factions come together, break apart, and merge in different shapes. So much ive aggressive - and outright aggressive - needling and pestering and vomiting.
I kind of loved it... even though real humans would have walked out within five minutes.
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My Updated Shrunken Watchlist List (Round 4)
Full Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist Rules from Nina.