Missing (2023)

This doesn't quite succeed in sustaining, like "Searching" did, its wholly tech-window-delivered thrills in which everything that happens happens on a phone- and/or computer screen, about halfway through losing momentum and starting to rely on increasingly unlikely sources of video footage, but the mystery of an American teen's mother contains some clever developments.

★★★☆☆

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Big Momma's House (2000)

"Honky Grandma Be Trippin'" for realsies has Martin Lawrence playing the undercover cop who thinks the best way to inveigle his way into a wanted criminal's circle is to use a leftover The Klumps bodysuit to disguise himself as a large Southern grandmother, which seems a lot more work than simply developing the chemistry he finds he has as himself with the gangster's girlfriend.

★☆☆☆☆

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Stigmata (1999)

Patricia Arquette stars as the only person in the world who doesn't know from the outset of this light horror movie exactly what is going on - for 90-odd minutes, she thrashes around like a crazy person on a train, at a nightclub, and in a bathtub surrounded by a silly number of candles, having strange visions, repeatedly running out into Pittsburg traffic, and generally trying very hard to fill the time it takes for stigmata to appear one-by-one on her body while her co-stars, Gabriel Byrne and a string of rosary beads, and viewers, wait patiently for the by-the-numbers demon possession story to finish.

★☆☆☆☆

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