It’s already happened as we’re seated, watching, the spell being cast. What happened in Marybrook happened two years ago, our unseen child narrator tells us, when 17 third-graders went missing from the class of Ms. Justine Grady (Julia Garner, light-years away from her turn as the Silver Surfer in last month's The Fantastic Four: First Steps and finding the relatability in a low-key alcoholic spiral).
Weapons
R, 128 minutes
Now playing at Regal and AMC locations
As you can imagine, nothing has been quite right in Marybrook since that happened, with everyone in town still reeling in their own way. And part of the skill that writer-director Zach Cregger wields in Weapons (his first film since 2022’s Barbarian ) is how this central calamity doesn’t affect any two people the