‘You Should Have Left’ Film Review: Don’t Go in the Basement, Kevin Bacon!

The timing couldn't be more fortuitous for the release of Mary Mazzio's uplifting documentary about the nation's first African American high school rowing team, which feels almost like a tonic for these troubled times. Narrated by Common and including NBA greats Grant Hill and Dwyane Wade among its executive producers, A Most Beautiful Thing, scheduled to open in theaters, powerfully demonstrates the healing potential of sports and the ways it can help bridge societal divides.

Where did the universe, humanity, our planet and chocolate ice cream come from? They were all created by a giant, all-powerful being made of spaghetti, with two googly-eyes on raised stalks and a pair of meatballs where cheeks would bulge. This is the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), and if there were any justice in the world, His story would stand as good a chance of being taught as fact in American schools as the anti-evolution narrative called Intelligent Design.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticTom Hanks shows what a commanding actor he can be from the first taut combat sequence of “Greyhound,” when the title warship, leading a convoy through the North Atlantic in the early months of World War II, spies a U-boat speeding toward it from a dozen miles away. As the German sub approaches, we hear a lot of rapid-fire military and navigational jargon shooting back and forth between the sailors (“Hydrophone effects slow rev, sounds like 60 RPM, sir!”).

Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film CriticEye-popping action steals the show in “Lupin III: The First,” the first computer-animated feature entry in the classic franchise about the French gentleman thief and master of disguise.

Richard Kuipers There’s a bit of everything and most of it works in “Chasing Dream,” the first feature directed by Hong Kong ace Johnnie To since “Three” in 2016.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn “17 Blocks,” Cheryl Sanford, matriarch of a low-income African American household in southeast Washington, D.C., talks wistfully of a “parallel universe” where she and her family enjoy cookouts, vacations and gift-filled Christmas mornings. This melancholy confession comes moments after a closeup of her casually snorting cocaine.

A persuasive argument, not that one should still be required, for handing women directors the reins more often on big-canvas action movies, The Old Guard represents a boldly assured step for Gina Prince-Bythewood away from the intimate romantic drama of strong previous work like Love & Basketball and Beyond the Lights.

It turns out even Kevin Bacon himself can’t answer some of the questions on Buzzfeed’s “Degrees of Kevin Bacon” quiz.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – In a good haunted-house thriller, architecture is destiny. Early on in “You Should Have Left,” when Theo (Kevin Bacon), a wealthy retired banker with a tabloid scandal in his past, shows up with his movie-actress wife, Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex), at the vacation home they’ve rented for a getaway in the Welsh countryside, you know in your bones that you’re watching a variation on “The Shining.”

Don't vacation-rental services have enough trouble in the pandemic era that they shouldn't have to contend with stories like David Koepp's You Should Have Left — in which travelers become trapped inside a house bent on destroying their lives? A rigorous Clorox-wipe regimen won't address the problems facing a rich banker (Kevin Bacon) whose getaway becomes a space- and time-bending nightmare.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn a good haunted-house thriller, architecture is destiny.

not OK in Vollrath’s films – not in the short film, in which a divorced father tries to leave the country with his young daughter, and not in the feature, a hijacking thriller that takes place over 92 nerve-wracking minutes.Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a tour de force performance that finds the actor exploring various shades of desperation for pretty much the entire movie, “7500” is brutally simple and brutally efficient.

Audible is ramping up its original programming output this summer with a new slate of scripted audio series. The subscription business, which is known for its large offering of audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, has tapped voice talent including Carrie Coon, Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon and Yvette Nicole Brown as it invests to bring more original and exclusive stories to listeners.

Also Read: 'The Trip to Greece' Film Review: Fourth Time's Still a Charm for Steve Coogan-Rob Brydon TalkfestIn “Sometimes Always Never” — which is not to be confused with Eliza Hittman’s recent “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” — two-letter terms, mainly from the Greek alphabet, have secured many a Scrabble victory for Alan. It’s a brainy pastime he dominates with aggressive competitiveness.

The terrifying new trailer for “You Should Have Left” gives a first look at Amanda Seyfried and Kevin Bacon as a couple seeking a restful vacation, but end up getting anything but.

The first trailer for Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried‘s new horror movie, You Should Have Left, just debuted and will give you chills.

Haunted house films are fairly common. And in this era of low-budget horror, we’ve seen quite a few of them pop up, as filming in one location is always fairly cost-effective.

"Trolls World Tour" The sequel to the 2017 animated hit announced it would be available for digital download on April 10 -- the same day it was supposed to land in theaters. Now it's a VOD exclusive."Birds of Prey"  The Margot Robbie spinoff of 2017's "Suicide Squad" debuted on demand on March 24.

Also Read: 'The Vast of Night' Film Review: Sci-Fi Thriller Feels Like the '50s - And Like TodayOn paper, it’s sort of a kick that the head bad guy is Kevin James, who has spent his career playing amiable and goofy without ever venturing in the vicinity of mean or evil. With a bald head, bushy beard and swastika tattoo, he’s a Kevin James we’ve never remotely seen on screen, but he’s not terribly interesting as a one-dimensional and ultimately ineffectual white supremacist.