BRUCE R. MILLER

“Weapons” holds your interest far longer than it should.

Set in a quiet community, it tracks the disappearance of 17 students, all from one teacher’s classroom. One student remains but 17 are, where?

Quickly, parents suspect the teacher (Julia Garner), but why would a teacher want to kidnap 17 pre-teens?

Rather than grill those parents, authorities let this linger for quite some time until many people forget it even happened.

By focusing on various “interested” parties, director Zach Cregger tells individual stories, letting audience members piece together the clues. It’s a brilliant way of approaching a thriller that doesn’t necessarily have a satisfying resolution.

Through narration (narration that’s difficult to hear, thanks to the soft-spoken child who delivers it

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