Together (2025) - 6/10

Millie (Alison Brie) and Tim (Dave Franco) are leaving the city and moving to the sticks. Millie is excited, she has a job at a new school. Tim is not, he’s a musician whose career has stalled. All their friends can see their relationship isn’t going well, they’re not close, they bicker, do they even know each other that well? Will the move help bring them together? Yes, more than they realise. When they stumble into a mysterious underground cave with church bells and pews out in the woods near their new house, they find themselves trapped for the night, but fear not, there’s a fresh water source… but it’s not as safe as it appears. Which is not safe at all. Nothing is here. It’s tense and laced with menace right from the get go. It’s clear that the nightmares Tim is having are merely foreshadowing something darker that’s coming for their waking hours. It’s pretty base level freaky cult stuff and very much style over substance, but both Brie and Franco are good and provide a solid base for some pretty terrifying body-horror. What Tim thinks are panic attacks are something much more sinister, as he finds that despite the rift between them, they’re now uncontrollably connected. Which puts them in a pretty horrific situation, both figuratively and more disturbing, physically. The effects are great, Franco is great, he feels comfortable in a crazy spiralling story, Brie is brilliant too. This doesn’t make it a great film, it’s just a bit too clunky, but it’s pretty good.

6/10