There's already been some good takes on these ones, but my thoughts:
Banshees of Inisherin: I can recognize this as a thoughtful and well-made movie but it wasn't my cup of tea. I think the allegory it was trying to execute was pretty heavy-handed and detracted from character development (although they both go hand in hand so I dunno). Kerry Condon stole every scene she was in.
Glass Onion: I had fun watching this but agree with others that the mystery was pretty obvious (compared to the first one). Daniel Craig is hilarious.
Barbarian: Was looking forward to this based on online reviews but I hated it. Again, it was trying to connect social commentary with the characters but was pretty heavy-handed... although in this case it made sense with character development. Justin Long was very smart casting.
Horror is so hard to do because you're trying to put people into horrific and illogical situations while having them do logical things to get there. So in the case of Barbarian, you have people only doing illogical and stupid things to get into trouble. Along with poor pacing and editing, this was a huge miss for me.
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