Review of Jack Goes Home (2016) by Intuciic . — 30 Nov 2016

One of the most maddening experiences I've had all year. I'm a filmmaker, and, therefore, acknowledge that making a film is a very revealing, personal, terribly difficult thing. However, this is a movie with all the earmarks of a terrific ghost story that is weighted down by one of the most angering scripts I've ever heard. At one point, this terribly pretentious screenplay compliments it's own vocabulary via Lin Shaye's perplexingly unnatural character. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this is this movie is dripping with pretension that is so frustrating and nonsensical that I actually couldn't believe what I was hearing.

It feels like the product of a writer that has surrounded himself with people that compliment his writing, which wouldn't surprise me if that were the case. There are a shocking number of high-reaching ideas that aren't being fleshed out or explored in any kind of meaningful way.