Pennywise Reviews

You can’t walk away from It without being at least a little scared of clowns. Tim Curry first portrayed the not-so-funny villain in a 1990 miniseries, and Bill Skarsgard recently took up the mantle in a reboot of the same name and its conclusion in 2019.

Well, I think 5.3's rather rough on this. It's hardly a masterpiece, but it is consistently not-bad, at the very least, with brief elements of greatness. Most of this is due to the fact that, with little to none of this "direction" business, and a couple of shaky lines (sorry, Herr R) it's chiefly up to the actors to move the story along, and it's in more than capable hands as far as that went. Kurt Raab wrote himself an entirely great role, at the least, and acted it with equal (and occasionally startling) aplomb.

If you like Fassbinder's crew, but don't necessarily require the inherent talent of Fassbinder behind the camera, you should certainly see this.