Weapons Video Review

Weapons is a righteous, fully actualized genre-bender in which writer-director Zach Cregger hones Barbarian’s blend of unbearable tension and dark humor to a new level of razor-sharpness. The mystery of a mass disappearance and its impact on a small town unfold in a fascinatingly layered way that gives every character a chance to shine; the wise decision to break their stories up into multiple, time-scrambling chapters creates multiple cliffhangers that set up a shattering finale. Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, and Alden Ehrenreich lead a cast whose fine-tuned performances all align with and support Cregger’s delicate, film-long balancing act.