Pearl, the prequel to writer/director Ti West’s well-received shocker X, takes a character’s origin story—the kind usually dispensed as an afterthought in a couple of sentences of exposition or two minutes of black-and-white flashback footage—and turns it into an audacious, grandly operatic standalone experience.
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The Ugly Truth Comes to Light in The Swerve
The Swerve | 2020 | United States | 95 minutes | Dean Kapsalis To a non-fan of horror cinema, the notion of …