Opus

They never circled back to the whole bush shaving thing

Hard to rate, hard to review. I don't think I've ever seen a cult story like this before. Apart from the music, eeriness, and acting, all of which were done brilliantly with a wild amount of enigmatic tension, nothing stood out like the premise. It knows you're expecting the traditional 'escape' style narrative, so seeing certain things play out weirdly felt...weird. Most of the negative reviews seem to miss the sinister conversation 'Opus' calls for. The director wants us, like Ayo, to question what makes a cult. Who? Why? How? Whether it be moderate or extreme, cult behaviour has always been mainstream..."Teach them young and the world will be yours".

I really wanted to love Opus. The premise is brilliantly strange—a reclusive pop superstar using a comeback album as a front for a cult? That’s a killer hook. And honestly, Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich are great; they both turn in compelling performances that almost make it work.

But the movie is just a mess. It suffers from a serious identity crisis, veering wildly between horror and comedy without ever finding a groove. It makes for a frustrating watch because you can see the potential, but the script is all over the place and the supporting characters feel like one-dimensional caricatures. It’s a fascinating failure—great ideas, hollow execution. 5.6/10

I thought this was a really good movie but it could just be because my queen Ayo was in it.

intriguing concept but i feel like it was underdeveloped

This movie would be ‘meh’ without Ayo tbh. It was aesthetically pleasing with a cool concept, but nothing in the plot was really fleshed out and a lot of the characters lacked depth. Still enjoyable though.