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“okay so everyone wanted this to be M3GAN doing a little dance and instead kate dolan made a sad quiet movie about a man who cannot let go and honestly? i was into it. lily sullivan is doing SO much with basically her whole body held perfectly still, that flat programmed sweetness that keeps almost cracking, i couldn't look away. yeah the middle stretch drags and david rysdahl mopes around the house for a while but the mopey lonely widower energy is kind of the point, this is grief cosplaying as an erotic thriller and i respect the audacity. is it as fun as a killer doll? no. did i sit there getting genuinely uneasy watching a machine learn what it means to want something. also yes. everyone comparing it to companion can go outside, this one wants to make you sad first and i think that's cunty of it”

“took a killer hippo more seriously than i take my own life and honestly it earned it”

“a flashing christmas tree should not have done that to my nervous system but here we are”

“the jingle got in my head and now i flinch every time a real truck rolls down my street”

“boléro looping over those endless white subway tiles genuinely got under my skin more than any jumpscare could, i started checking the ceiling posters and the reflections like i was the one trapped down there. ninomiya doing the whole asthmatic panic thing is so physical it made my own chest tight, and the clacking heels lived in my head for a full day after. i went in wanting it to get NASTY and it never really does, it stays quiet and existential and a couple of the scarier beats kind of fumble the landing, but honestly the restraint is why i respect it. this is a video game adaptation that decided to be about a guy's actual insides instead of being loud and dumb, and i'm a sucker for a liminal space that means something. not going to rewatch it constantly but i thought about it walking to the train the next morning and hated every escalator”