LOVE LIES BLEEDING (2024)
The acting is solid. If you like Kristen Stewart, worth a watch. The other broad also did a good job. All the side parts from Ed Harris on down to a Keith Jardine cameo do well, the casting works.
The vibe is good. It has the feeling & general appearance of a quality movie; the directing & overall production is competent, on the better side of average...
That's just it though. It never reaches any heights. Nothing new or gripping is said in the story or the writing. The directing isn't visionary enough to grab you the way a great film does. The one big swing the movie does take, in the ending, didn't work for me. Nor the person I went to see it with. Nor pretty much the rest of the audience, who seemed to be awkwardly laughing at the movie, rather than with it.
Regardless, 'Criminal Lovers' is kind of a hard genre to truly fuck up, so it is a decent enough watch; but I wouldn't rush out to the theater to see it.
'twas a'ight / 10