Twinless (2025)
Directed by James Sweeney
Two men who lost their respective twin brothers develop a growing friendship after meeting in a support group. However, both harbor long-hidden secrets that threaten to tear them apart.
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Director
Emerald Fennell
Critics invoke Fennell by name, and compare Twinless to 1 of Fennell’s films.
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On Fennell, rather than any one film
Sweeney is more suited to a Mike White/Tim Robinson/Emerald Fennell kind of comedy…
Twinless is a toned down twist on Saltburn meets Netflix’s Dead To Me.
In Saltburn, Barry Keoghan played a deceptively creepy role.
Both O’Brien and Sweeney are exceptional in a film would make for a great double bill with this year’s queer parasocial thriller Lurker (IYKYK).
This year’s film, Lurker, took a similar approach with a character obsessed over a musical talent.
…part bromance, part dark comedy, with a dash of The Talented Mr. Ripley…
Sweeney fearlessly dedicates himself to playing Dennis as something of his own twin-fetishizing Tom Ripley…
On Almodóvar, rather than any one film
Instead, Twinless uses tropes better suited to Pedro Almodóvar-esque psychological thrillers than comedies to explore the friendship.
…soft Almodovarian…
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…played by the film’s writer-director, James Sweeney, as what can best be described as a “Napoleon Dynamite” vibe, if Napoleon were gay and a bit psycho.
…as what can best be described as a “Napoleon Dynamite” vibe, if Napoleon were gay and a bit psycho.
Would it be sacrilege to say it reminded me a lot of the house of mirrors in Orson Welles’s “The Lady from Shanghai”?
It’s The Odd Couple meets Fight Club meets whatever happens when your therapist cancels on you last minute.
It’s The Odd Couple meets Fight Club meets whatever happens when your therapist cancels on you last minute.
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…occasionally creating haunting parallels with Zach Braff’s winsome indie nightmare, Garden State…
O’Brien is firmly in a dramedy space (think like 50/50, The Farewell, or This is Where I Leave You)…