THE WEEKEND AWAY (2022) 

The Weekend Away’s worst quality is its lead, Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl), amongst an exhausting murder mystery that never quite hits any of its beats appropriately. For a mere 91 minutes this film is relentlessly dull and when the action beats kick in – they feel ill-timed, making the experience all the more expensing. While the cast surrounding Meester deliver a mixed bag of performances, none of them are able to heighten this poorly paced mystery past the level of a daytime soap opera with a decent-sized budget. Throwing at us a solution to the mystery that feels so obvious it could have hit us directly in the face; only to misdirect us into a finale that left me drowsy from the lack of suspense or concern.