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"Cuckoo" & "Daddio"

From left: Hunter Schafer in Cuckoo (2024); Dakota Johnson in Daddio (2023).
From left: Hunter Schafer in Cuckoo (2024); Dakota Johnson in Daddio (2023).

Like all art forms, the object of a film is—or at least should be—to hold an audience’s attention. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of films that, each in its own particular way, tries to do exactly that. The first is the offbeat exercise in existential horror, Cuckoo, while the second is a film about the chance relationship between a young woman and an older cab driver titled Daddio.

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  • “Cuckoo” is the latest in the recent string of artsy horror films, the story of a family experiencing odd goings-on at a German resort. Nathan Weinbender says that it’s made with terrific style and atmosphere, but the story doesn’t sustain itself to the end.