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Rating: 8/10 (12 August 2017)

PROS: To start off, I have literally never seen a better kid actor. The two main characters were able to deliver a perfect film with no faults in their delivery whatsoever. The actors gave everything you want and then some to their performance, it was quite remarkable. It was so good that it helped the rest of the film tremendously. The characters were able to move along with the build up of tension at the same rate which made the movie progress smoothly. The build up was very terrorizing as well. It was so good that it gave me chills to watch. Something that I look for in movies is how smoothly the transition is from, climax to falling action, and this movie was able to let the viewer simmer on what they just had watched which was nice. The director was careful enough to let the development of the falling action carry the last few scenes of the film, this made the resolution of the film more impactful. To continue, the resolution was very well composed. I enjoyed the movie greatly because of the way the ending wrapped up everything nicely.
CONS: The one thing that stuck out like a sore thumb was the crazy amounts of plot holes and unanswered questions. To start off, the way the characters changed throughout the film was so bizarre. One minute the mother was sane, then crazy, then sane again; then the son was crazy, then sane, then crazy, then sane, and these transitions happened so abruptly and it caused too much disorganization for my liking. Another part that was frustrating was the Babadook himself. I know this might spoil some things in the movie, but the Babadook was quite agonizing to conceptualize. He did real life things like move things, recreate things, make phone calls, inhabit bodies, and all this time the whole point of the Babadook was to be a metaphor for grief which it didn't deliver. I was torn by the Babadook because it wasn't developed well enough in the film. I know their was a lot of cons, but PLEASE watch this movie! It is so good.
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