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The title card arrives 33 minutes in, which tells you exactly what kind of film it intends to be.

Noa meets a charming man in a supermarket after a run of terrible dates. He is a surgeon. He suggests a weekend away.

Mimi Cave shoots the first act as a romantic comedy, with the grammar entirely intact, and the point of the delayed title is that the audience has to sit through the same red flags Noa dismissed and dismiss them too.

Sebastian Stan plays it as pure boyish charm and never drops it, including while doing the other thing, which is the correct choice and much worse than menace would be.

There is a dance sequence in a kitchen that is one of the most unpleasant things in recent horror precisely because it is fun.