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Unguided: The Thoughtless Transphobia of Weapons (2025)

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CONTAINS SPOILERS No Nazis here: the assembly was instructed to 'extend their right hands in blessing' to a member of the Catholic order who ran their school.   Weapons had one of the most intriguing horror premises I've seen in recent years. The children of an entire classroom all leave one night. They leave their homes and they leave their parents. They do this simultaneously and without a single word to anyone. At 2:17 am, when no child should be awake, the doors of their American parents' stately suburban homes gracefully crawl open and the kids run into the night, their arms out to their side like they're using them to glide. They take long strides, their faces blank. They are no longer human children; they are inhuman birds, flying free of the ties that bind.  Except one.  The empty classroom that this lone child walks into the next day is headed by Justine (Julia Garner). She cares about the kids dearly. So much so that in acting on this, she oversteps prof...