Smile (2022): A Movie Review

Writer/director Parker Finn’s debut feature is a curse/demonic possession movie (in that order, with possession playing a subservient role in the narrative) with primary themes of mental health, trauma, and the cycle of abuse.

The plot concerns Rose Cotter (played by Sosie Bacon), a cynical-minded psychiatrist who treats a new patient one day. That patient is a clearly intelligent but distraught PHD student…