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Movie Review: Speak No Evil (2024)
James McAvoy is back at it again giving us a Masterclass lesson in acting.
There are two morals to this film.
- Don’t trust strangers.
- Don’t play with your food.
Directed by James Watkins, this film is about an American family that has recently relocated to England. With both mother and father unemployed they decide that it’s the best time to go on vacation. While on vacation, they meet another family and immediately hit it off. After they return from vacation, their real-world problems are there to meet them. So, instead of facing their issues they decide to run away from them again by accepting an invitation to visit the family they met on vacation.
At first, things are okay. The family they are visiting has a modest house and farm and live basically isolated from the rest of society. After a few days things have gotten weirder, and the visiting family begins to think that they are in a potentially dangerous situation. Once the family tries to leave, then the veneer of the host family breaks. Once that happens, the visiting family has to defend themselves.
The American family consists of mother (played by Mackenzie Davis), father (played by Scoot McNairy), and daughter (played by Alix West Lefler). The host family is played by father (played by James…
