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6/10 on IMDB, that's respectable. Scores a relatively low 38% on RT, although that's countered by a high audience engagement score of 69%.

But should I watch this movie??

Says Jake Wilson of The Age: "This is standard horror movie stuff, but also a considered aesthetic, as Wilson underlines by all too briefly bringing on Hiam Abbass as an imperious professor who holds forth about Goya and the need to balance darkness and light." Rating 2.5/5

Says Victoria Luxford of the BBC: "It is a bit formulaic at this point but if you’re looking for something scarier amongst the big action movies this summer this is not a bad choice."

I'll be back later to share my impressions, though they matter little compared to the wider pantheon of professional practitioners.

Edit: My goodness gracious, what a lovely film. Not too scary, more along the lines of a morality play in some ways. Not religious in any way that I could discern. But definitely spiritual. Loved the themes of father son relationships being broken, and just how desperately sad that can be. And of course, the inevitable coming together to re-bond family. Yes, the ending is a bit anti-clamactic, but it was about time we have a happy ending in this series. The rest of the endings in the series have been quite scary and final. Overall gonna go with a 7/10. Normally I would say 8/10, but something in me cannot be so generous.

A snippet from the article. I removed some content for brevity.

For decades, climate change has proceeded at roughly the expected pace, says David Armstrong McKay, a climate scientist at the University of Exeter, in England. Its impacts, however, are accelerating—sometimes far faster than expected.

For a while, the consequences weren’t easily seen. They certainly are today. The Southwest is sweltering under a heat dome. Vermont saw a deluge of rain, its second 100-year storm in roughly a decade. Early July brought the hottest day globally since records began—a milestone surpassed again the following day. “For a long time, we were within the range of normal. And now we’re really not,” Allegra LeGrande, a physical-research scientist at Columbia University, told me. “And it has happened fast enough that people have a memory of it happening.”

...a growing number of climate scientists now believe we may be careening toward so-called tipping points, where incremental steps along the same trajectory could push Earth’s systems into abrupt or irreversible change—leading to transformations that cannot be stopped even if emissions were suddenly halted. “The Earth may have left a ‘safe’ climate state beyond 1°C global warming,” Armstrong McKay and his co-authors concluded in Science last fall. We don’t really know when or how fast things will fall apart.

Some tipping points will interact, worsening one another’s effects. When melt from Greenland’s glaciers enters the ocean, for example, it alters an important system of currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Right now it’s the feeblest it’s been in more than 1,000 years.

A shutdown of that ocean current could dramatically alter phenomena as varied as global weather patterns and crop yields. If the temperature of the sea surface changes, precipitation over the Amazon might too, contributing to its deforestation, which in turn has been linked to snowfall on the Tibetan plateau.

One grim paper that came out last year, titled “Climate End Game,” mapped out some of the potential catastrophes that could follow a “tipping cascade,” and considered the possibility that “a sudden shift in climate could trigger systems failures that unravel societies across the globe.”

Chris Field, the director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and a contributor to several IPCC reports, warned that “at some point, the impacts of the climate crisis may become so severe that we lose the ability to work together to deliver solutions.”

very pleasing. very very pleasing.

I am not familiar with the term, "federated" or its meaning... I'm hoping to get some serious answers and perhaps even some comedic answers....

Edit: thank you to all who answered my call for enlightenment. I'm even more confused (and hopeful) than I was before!

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
*Not with a bang but a whimper *