Review

Utah hasn't seen a production of "Carrie: The Musical" since 2015. This year, two theatre companies put on the show.

“The Social Reckoning” is a moderately tense biographical conspiracy thriller, pitting one altruistic woman's voice against an enormously wealthy company that manages to avoid any social responsibility.

I’m happy to say I didn’t hate this film. It was okay. Not the best of this year but also not the worst, and I hope lots of movie lovers will still give this one a chance in the movie theater.

“Primetime” feels like a contemporary tragedy of American acclaim or American power created through the operations of the media.

This sequel isn’t a disappointment as big as “The Devil Wears Prada 2” was earlier this year, but it’s a distant second place so far.

This 96-minute film is not that scary or gripping, but it sure is entertaining, and it gives a much different look to the horror genre.

The simplicity and coziness makes the film feel like an intimate play on stage so every viewer can focus only on the actors in front of them, their smallest of gestures, and their sneakily verbal mixtures of deceit and honesty.

Hollywood is currently terrified to make a mainstream blockbuster not connected to familiar intellectual property, so “The End of Oak Street” does deserve some credit here being a new idea.

So much potential is wasted in this film, I found myself asking, “What kind of film is this trying to be?”

This feeling of moving through a game keeps "Exit 8" an engaging, uniquely alluring film experience.