Final Cut

This wild horror comedy, a remake of Shin’ichiro Ueda’s cult hit One Cut of the Dead, follows an ambitious French filmmaker (Romain Duris, The Beat That My Heart Skipped) who’s making a single-take, low-budget zombie flick in which the cast and crew, one by one, are actually turning into zombies. Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) milk’s the film’s hilarious and meta-to-the-max premise for all it’s worth, which also crafting a love letter to the art of filmmaking. What’s on-screen unfolds in typically cheesy B-movie fashion, while the off-screen hijinks offer a celebration of the unpredictable and collaborative nature of film sets. Featuring a hysterically unhinged turn by Oscar-nominee Berenice Bejo (The Artist), and serving up blood-soaked high farce par excellence, Final Cut revels in its affectionate embrace of goofy genre fun. (Dir. by Michel Hazanavicius, 2022, France, in French/Japanese with English subtitles, 112 mins., Not Rated)