The Banishing, 2020 – ★★
The pacing is sluggish, the scares are tame, and it never finds its own identity.
The pacing is sluggish, the scares are tame, and it never finds its own identity.
Every choice somehow manages to be the worst possible one. The script bends reality just to keep the mess going, and the forced “serious” tone…
The premise does most of the heavy lifting – an AI judge with a 90-minute countdown is genuinely interesting on paper. But once the structure…