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9/06/2020

Nothing to Hide (2018)

During a rare lunar eclipse, 7 close friends gather for a dinner party. They decide to play a game: all phones will be put in the middle of the table and any texts, calls, or emails will be read aloud or put on speakerphone. This is a great premise. Or it could have been.

There are two huge problems in the execution: 1) more than half of the attendees are cheating on their significant others -- so, not only are they awful people, they would never have agreed to the game and 2) the film completely wusses out on its own inescapable outcome by magicking it away as -- apparently -- an eclipse phenomenon. I was extremely frustrated.

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