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Super Dragon Ball Heroes (2018)
Know what you're talking about before reviewing
First and foremost understanding what Super Dragonball Heroes is goes a long way to understanding why it has a fairly shallow and short story and run time. It's a promo anime for the game, not an actual series. Think of it as a fever dream of all things dragonball, nothing really makes sense but it looks cool, you're certain there are a lot if things out of place, and you're likely just waiting for Beerus to wake up and find out you've been in his head the whole time as the punchline to the series.
It's not amazing, but given that it's basically glorified advertising for a game I wouldn't expect a whole lot in the way of deep development. Great if you're just wanting to watch something flashy while on break at work, not so much if you're expecting it to be a sequel to DBS.
It Comes at Night (2017)
Lazy writing pandered as "deep hipsterism"
The film was absolutely awful. There are several issues the film maker's and his fans try to cover up with more excuses much like the plot to the film, which is so full of holes that Stephen Hawkings black hole theory held more water. Spoilers ahead.
The general story is that a man and his family are trying to survive an outbreak of some sort. His son is shown to have some seriously deranged but not entirely unexpected dreams and participates in voyeuristic tendencies. A guy breaks into their house and they beat the hell out of him and tie him to a tree, three days later they go pick up his family to move in. Inevitably this doesn't work out, the dog gets messed up by something, which is unspecified, and then conveniently brought back to the house for the family to find. In the end, everybody dies due to either infection or gunshot.
The fact I can accurately relate the entire plot with such a vague write-up should be sign enough that the writer didn't want to put in the work of an actual story. The excuse he wanted everybody to interpret the film differently and fill in the gaps with their experiences is ridiculous as 99% of the hipsters positively rating the film find the hardest thing in life is opening their organic, all natural, vegan friendly, non-gmo, 0 fat tofu frappe without exerting more effort than absolutely necessary. The false marketing was also tasteless and was sadly done better by the more recent movie Mother!, which actually had a plot, leaves room for interpretation, and even closed up all the nagging little questions one may have all on it's own without a poor excuse of basically "imagine your own movie plot and call it mine".