Longlegs (2024), directed and written by Osgood Perkins.
Nicolas Cage gives the kind of high-amplitude performance you hire Nic Cage for. The movie is visually unsettling, and the script has intriguing elements. But the big twists are obvious ahead of time, and Longlegs doesn’t commit to its craziness. It tries to make sense, when it should embrace the nightmarish irrationality at its heart. If it did that, I might accept Carrie Anne’s odd dialect without wondering why she’s adding all those S’s to words. Entertaining enough to watch once, but not to rewatch.