Andrew Jarecki
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But the film loses it with strained references to "Titanic," "The Blues Brothers" and even the incest documentary "Capturing the Friedmans."
The new Pegg-Frost film, like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Spaced, is crammed with gaggy allusions to movies of all kinds, from Capturing the Friedmans to Lorenzo's Oil; but the inexhaustible touchstone is Hollywood sci-fi.
Give "Paul" this much: it holds the unprecedented distinction of being the only mainstream comedy in existence with punchlines referencing the 2003 child molestation documentary "Capturing the Friedmans" and 1992's disease drama "Lorenzo's Oil."
As the town’s hysteria spreads like a contagion we’re reminded of past persecution tales, from The Children’s Hour, in which a spiteful student accuses two teachers of being lesbians (at a time when that was a much bigger deal than today), to Capturing the Friedmans, the unnerving documentary about a father and son accused of molesting computer students in their basement.
Crudely, if maybe helpfully, this drama about how a false accusation of child abuse destroys the life of a simple kindergarten worker could be dubbed The Children’s Hour meets Capturing the Friedmans.
Enhancing director Matt Reeves' astute whole is Michael Giacchino's (2017's " The Book of Henry ") dynamic, propulsive music score, a catalog of one powerhouse track after the next, and Michael Seresin's (2010's " All Good Things ") fluid cinematography of a world lapsed into desolation and chaos.