11/26/2022 0 Comments About time movie review![]() Director and co-writer Robi Michael is more interested in gauzy camera effects, snatches of overheard conversation forcing us to fill in between the blanks, keeping it cryptic. That weekend get-away is going to bring everything to a head, his past and Mia’s present, and that’s when the dying in “Every Time I Die” raises the stakes and lifts a pretty smart movie into the realm of a thriller that plays. To say he’s “haunted” undersells what he’s going through. Sam still carries around a Three Little Pigs tin box with childhood mementos and photos. Hazy, time-bending flashbacks let us drift with Sam back to the events that haunted his youth - a beloved little sister he promised to “always protect,” a failure to keep that promise, the shattered family, the probing questions of what we assume is a child psychologist. She’s been cheating on him with Sam, and if Tyler figures this out, there could be trouble. Her soldier/husband Tyler ( Tyler Dash White, fierce) is back from duty overseas. Jay is married to Poppy ( Michelle Macedo), and with Mia ( Melissa Macedo, yes they’re sisters) they’ve planned a weekend at a lake house. “I’m not like you…a different kind of crazy.” “There’s more ways to kill yourself than actually committing suicide,” Jay counters. Jay senses something forlorn and broken in Sam, but Sam won’t hear it. Sam is a paramedic who spends his days with the world-weary Jay ( Marc Menchaca), a beery, seemingly happy go-lucky guy with the dark cloud of a suicide attempt and the medication meant to stave off another on his person. He is smitten, but staring into the bathroom mirror before his shower, he is further confused. We meet Sam ( Drew Fonteiro), dazed and in bed with Mia. ![]() Tensely-plotted, sharply and sympathetically-acted, nerve-wracking and touching, this supernatural tale arrives a startling delight in a summer packed with pyrite at the bottom of the gold miner’s pan. ![]() “Every Time I Die” is the best no-budget thriller of the summer, moody, cerebral drama about a guy who carries his guilt about a childhood loss through multiple soon-to-be-murdered bodies in search of redemption. It’s like panning for gold, this business of rummaging through a summer’s indie releases, looking for a nugget in a cinema season that produces blockbusters, and little else.īut here’s one. ![]()
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