Steph:
This movie is boring as shit, and a film can only handle like one or two slow-motion cigarette lighting shots max, and there were at least ten in this, but I suppose the premise is cool, and I like the idea of performative friendship and documenting supernatural phenomena and the real vs the unreal and the fact that they pulled it off low-budget style—but sometimes it felt a little dull listening to them riff off each other with math equations and theories about gravitational pull, and I’m not even joking about the unnecessary melodrama of the cigarettes. ⏰⏰⏰
Josh:
I’ve liked what I’ve seen of Moorhead and Benson’s work, and this one has its minor pleasures, but it doesn’t really go anywhere, and once they start picking apart the veracity of what we’re watching, the stakes feel awfully low, and it basically reminded me of a paranormal Primer, but not as smart or compelling. ⏰⏰⏰
The Bare Minimum 