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Funny you should mention THE SHINING, as Jack Nicholson’s son Ray has a small part in SMILE 2, and gets to mimic his dad’s evil grin from that film in a scene. One of the greatest goosebump film moments in all of 2024!
I wasn’t so thrilled with the first SMILE (it was okay), but thought the second was absolutely brilliant, my 8th favourite film of 2024. Not just because of that Ray Nicholson scene, or the scares, but because of the rich filmatic language, and the satirical take on fame and fortune. It’s like a twisted – and IMO better – take on that than Brady Corbet’s celebrated VOX LUX.
They managed to lift the whole thing beyond the generic tropes of the first. A rare feat.