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Richard Roeper

‘The Desperate Hour’: Naomi Watts displays her range in a one-woman show, more or less

Naomi Watts plays a mom relying on her phone for updates on a shooting at her son’s school in “The Desperate Hour.” | Vertical Entertainment

Just last month with the release of “The Fallout” we were talking about how the School Shooting Movie has become an actual genre in the 21st century — and in the last couple of years we can add the Filmed During the Pandemic Movie as a new category, as we’ve had a steady influx of films in which the actors were isolated from each other for most of the shoot. (I think I’d be fine if I never saw another film in which everyone was on a video chat for the entirety of the story.)

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