Weapons (2025)

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Weapons (2025) – Z. Creggar

Ostensibly narrated by a primary school girl from whatever small town in America the film takes place, lending a fable-like quality to the proceedings, we begin the tale with the key mystery to be solved: on one particular school day, all of the students in one classroom (save one) fail to turn up to school (in fact, they each left their houses at 2:17 AM and disappeared). Distressed parents focus their anger on the class teacher, played by Julia Garner. The film is divided into three parts: Justine’s story (the classroom teacher), Archer’s story (one of the parents, played by Josh Brolin), and Alex’s story (the one boy who did show up for school, played by Cary Christopher). Everyone is desperate to understand what happened to the missing children – and, of course, to find them. Amy Madigan, playing Alex’s Aunt Gladys, was nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting actress for this film but did not win. To say any more would be criminal but I left the film thinking about the Brothers Grimm (and although I was hoping for a strictly supernatural film, I did wince on a few occasions that involved some violence and gore). Worth a look (if you dare)!