Oh, you can do a lot better than assume...

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Dealing with your business only during day hours is not the slightest defense against vampires...

(Likewise, silver bullets as a way to kill werewolves was concocted by Hollywood, & werewolves couldn't care less about silver bullets...) /2

Can't say she moves the needle for me one way or the other...

Florence Pugh.

You don't know the half of it.

The Way We Were: He's WASPy & conservative. She's Jewish & radical. They're young & in love, & you're out four bucks.

Cabaret: Life is a cabaret - dull, way too long, & full of Nazis.

Those are the ones that stuck with me...

Pretty much.

Also, the White Widow was the WHINIEST assassin I've EVER seen...

I think it's more that it's those two who are happier - what they most want throughout is to be together, & as vampires they can be, w/o other obligations, & clearly that, in their case, solves other hungers as well, unlike other vampires...

An old film critic friend of mine once wrote this short review of Cries & Whispers, which he dubbed Groans & Whimpers:

If I want pain & suffering, I'll throw myself down the stairs.

It's just that Leigh's films are mostly about people trapped in their miserable little lives finally being forced to admit they're in miserable little lives & nothing will change that. It's a very English take. (I'm not suggesting they're bad movies...)

But virtually every threat in that film was laughably beyond their reach, &, for me, the message wasn't the touchy-feely intervention, it was how they sold out to the villain in the end, to massage their own egos. (& WTF was that chase scene that totally neuters them?)

Agreed on Sinners. Acting was generally terrific. It's also about staying in your safe spaces, tho', which is a tad retrograde. Script was a bit bumpy, but the payoff was worth the ride.