The Final Destination (2009)

The inventive Final Destination series continues with this fourth movie, a especially breezy 84-minutes that feels hastily cobbled together, in which a group, this time a particularly wooden bunch of teens, cheat Death by foreseeing and escaping a freak accident, this time involving racecars at a speedway, only for Death to turn up again - and again - determined to settle the score; like always, Death takes the form of grisly Rube Goldberg machines ending in eye trauma, decapitation and the like and a few of these machines are so effective they could be used in a government campaign for workplace safety, but there is also a good number of other scenes in this particular FD instalment that are just lazily conceived moments of bloodsplatter.

★★☆☆☆

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I Miss You (Tu Me Manques) (2019)

This 2019 film about the staging of a theatre production tells a deeply personal story of loss and tells it with great effort and feeling, but heavy-handed theatrics, cliché and platitudes (lines like, "Art is the only thing that tells the truth", for instance) get in the way of the film having the impact the actual play had in Bolivia in 2015, apparently, when it got the notoriously homophobic country talking about gay suicide.

★★☆☆☆

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