Content. To the degree that the film has personality, it's both secondhand (Gillespie throwing another Scorsese costume party, with a truly laughable soundtrack of exhausted jukebox needle drops) and just an accent, in the same way that the funkier Marvel movies drop a mustache or a funny hat on a rigid formula. I enjoyed the Emmas sniping at each other, essentially doing dueling Cruellas, but even that feels relentlessly focus-grouped, a result of market research that confirmed that, yes, Cruella…

Not as conceptually daring or clever as Unfriended—the film cheats a little on its premise, slathering non-diegetic music over the action to make it more conventionally cinematic, and zooming in close on details or certain quadrants of the screen to guide our attention, instead of just asking us to process the information normally, like we would on our laptops. But I’m still very much in the tank for Screenlife, a storytelling gimmick that’s revitalized the way films can present exposition.…