Ready to go down the rabbit hole? “Backrooms,” the film from Kane Parsons which began as a web series Parsons made when he was a teenager, is in wide release. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and a very creepy yellow room. We spoke with Parsons about the movie’s journey to the big screen, and we have a review.
Also out this week, Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas anchor “Power Ballad,” a musical comedy about a potential hit song. But our critic, Manohla Dargis, thinks it’s a little one-note. In her review, she wrote that the movie has “some promising themes,” but those never get developed. “Instead,” Dargis continued, “the director John Carney, who wrote the script with Peter McDonald, keeps everything nice and insistently light, gesturing at complexities rather than delving into them.”
