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’A Sacrifice’ Review: Suicide Is Painless In a Fuzzy Thriller Starring Sadie Sink and Eric Bana
A cult lures an academic (Eric Bana) and his teen daughter (Sadie Sink) in Jordan Scott’s slick if underdeveloped thriller 'A Sacrifice.'
An academic’s visiting teenage daughter falls under the sway of a sinister cult connected to his own research in “ A Sacrifice.” Suspended between straightforward thriller and something loftier, Jordan Scott ’s sophomore feature — headlined by Sadie Sink and Eric Bana — is a slick but unsatisfying narrative muddle. Other territories will be seeing it under the title “Berlin Nobody,” while English author Nicholas Hogg’s source novel was called (and is set in) “Tokyo.” So one can safely assume Scott, whose career has primarily been in commercial brand campaigns, took considerable liberties with that material. Ben Monroe (Bana) is an American university professor who previously wrote a nonfiction bestseller called “The Science of Loneliness.” Now he’s a guest lecturer at an institution in the German capital, while working on a next tome to be titled “The Power of Group Think.” But he’s also traveled here at the behest of his wife in California, who wants at least a trial separation.
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