SENDER – Review by Liz Braun

Anxiety. Claustrophobia. Dread. Paranoia: Sender has all the good stuff. To this psychological thriller mix, writer-director Russell Goldman had the good sense to add Britt Lower as the lead, with Lower (Darkest Miriam) playing Julia, a recovering alcoholic. Julia manages to be charismatic, funny and earnest all at once, and you go along happily with her on this increasingly crazed journey. The tough part is figuring out what’s real …

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THINGS HEARD & SEEN – Review by Maitland McDonagh

A smartly spooky movie in which the true monsters are all too real, husband-and-wife team Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s adaptation of Elizabeth Brundage’s All Things Cease to Appear, is driven by a haunting whose nature is tantalizingly unclear.

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