Despite what the sequels devolved into, The Silence of the Lambs is a not a film about serial killers and sociopaths, nor pathology and forensic psychiatry, nor statewide manhunts and federal investigations.

To call Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga a prequel is reductive, as the term tends to imply a sort of retroactive reverse engineering of what made an original work successful, or an unnecessary cash-grab

I imagine you’ve got some sort of career going on. Presumably you’d like it to end on a high. Or at least suggest an upward trajectory, perhaps rounding things off with a nice, gentle plateau. You certainly wouldn’t want it to finish in ridicule, would you?

Evil Does Not Exist, the latest feature from celebrated auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi, has a title reminiscent of a horror movie, much like Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite.