'Weapons' Review: Zach Cregger's 'Barbarian' Followup Is a Movie at War with Itself
Weapons is a film that shapeshifts before your eyes. That’s both the strength and weakness of director Zach Cregger’s follow-up to his smash hit Barbarian, which sees him circling similar thematic territory as he indicts the manufactured comfort of suburbia. If his 2022 film was a patient and unsettling dismantling of that safety. Weapons rips the band-aid off with primal glee, as Cregger exposes the latent terrors underneath the fences of artifice in a much more expansive and sprawling way. It’s a big swing, with an outrageous ending that provides hysterically vicious catharsis. But its propulsive momentum is often at odds with the more patient story Cregger seems to want to tell, resulting in a film that feels less than the sum of its many exciting parts.
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