Brightburn

This is an interesting idea that I wish they had done more with.

Despite its simplicity, Brightburn's premise is filled with potential, but it struggles to find anything meaningful to say.

Because the film that this broadside of brass describes is ultimately, seriously, "Duuuumb!"

The final effect... is a disheartening vacuum. Having torn down a myth, it leaves little but a dropped mic in its wake.

Director David Yarovesky does the fantasy stuff with flair. And the dafter the plot gets, the better the acting conjured from Elizabeth Banks as foster mom.

This film draws its strength in part from its willingness to be a more humbly scaled operation than the tentpoles weighted down by mandates for billion-dollar grosses.

Brightburn is the ultimate superhero 'What if...?' scenario, taking things to the furthest extremes.

A predictable yet entertaining, gleefully bloody exploration of evil finding its way in the world.

Maybe it has many issues, but Brightburn is exactly what horror fans ask for in this era of 'superhero infested multiplexes'. [Full review in Spanish].

Brightburn is an intelligently made thriller whose director, David Yarovesky, knows how to draw out dread with silence and turn it up to 11 only when necessary.