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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The Invisible Man (2020)

It is a shame that this horror thriller, one that surprises by being more about a controlling, abusive relationship than the scifi gimmick of invisibility and a movie that begins thrillingly and proceeds unhurriedly and parcels out information so intelligently for its first half, is in such a rush to finish and remains so nasty, so thankless - the satisfaction of Elizabeth Moss's victim's eventual fight-back against her diabolical, unseen tormentor is brief and the intelligence of the script drops off sharply in the end.

★★★☆☆

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A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Have your eyelids toothpicked open while The Secret plays on repeat OR have as much fun watching this Disney fantasy as it incessantly hammers its positive psychology message - that's everything - while all else - logic and plot, story and watchability, even basic sense - is nothing. 

★☆☆☆☆

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