Speak No Evil review | James Watkins’ remake is too timid for its own good
James Watkins directs an amicable, ambitious remake of Christian Tafdrup’s 2022 masterpiece. Here’s our Speak No Evil review.
Remakes are some of the most difficult films to review. On one hand, you want to experience and evaluate them as their own thing, but it’s also hard to deny that they exist in the context of the source material. It’s near impossible to ignore the original when watching a remake, but in the best of cases, a truly great remake improves or deepens the original film while also crafting its own identity.
James Watkins’ Speak No Evil, a remake of a 2022 Danish film of the same name, is a really good film, but a terrible remake.
Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis’ Ben and Louise meet a nice British couple while on vacation. The two couples hit it off and Paddy and Ciara (played by James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi...
Remakes are some of the most difficult films to review. On one hand, you want to experience and evaluate them as their own thing, but it’s also hard to deny that they exist in the context of the source material. It’s near impossible to ignore the original when watching a remake, but in the best of cases, a truly great remake improves or deepens the original film while also crafting its own identity.
James Watkins’ Speak No Evil, a remake of a 2022 Danish film of the same name, is a really good film, but a terrible remake.
Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis’ Ben and Louise meet a nice British couple while on vacation. The two couples hit it off and Paddy and Ciara (played by James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi...
- 9/9/2024
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
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