4.3
… too maudlin to be fun, even ironically, and it’s too insistent that it’s in on the joke to be genuinely engaging; empty calorie cinema without the flavour to make
6.5
… it probably won’t linger in your memory or haunt your dreams.
In case you have finally recovered from Scott Derrickson's 2021 masterpiece The Black Phone, he's gone and made a sequel, with Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw and Ethan Hawke all returning