Knock at the Cabin (2023)

A couple and their daughter are vacationing when four strangers arrive and urgently try to convince them that the world is ending. The good news is that the family can stop this from coming to pass if they simply reduce their family unit to two through a sacrificial killing. Jonathan Groff is phenomenal. Dave Bautista is absolutely wonderful. And the rest of the cast -- with the huge exception of the child -- is also very very good.

The story? Well, it's a great idea which forces one to play "what would I do?" It's nutso but, because it's steeped in the kind of bombastic religious verbiage that is very familiar for many of us who grew up in churches, it's also somewhat believable. That said, Shyamalan's thing has kind of become "take a great idea and push it a couple of feet past the line to eyeroll-town" and that's what he does here.

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