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February 17, 2026
Redux Redux review
The McManus brothers offer a stylish new spin on the time loop genre in this tale of a woman trying to stop the abduction and murder of her daughter

TL;DR
- Redux Redux is a low-budget time-loop thriller from the McManus brothers.
- The film features a bereaved mother using multiverse travel to save her abducted daughter from a child-killer.
- The time loop serves as a metaphor for the repetition-compulsion of trauma.
- The film settles into a linear narrative, focusing on the protagonist's attempts to escape the cycle and the mechanics of multiverse travel.
- The movie has a Christopher Nolan-esque inexorability in its action sequences.
- The substance of the film, dealing with the protagonist's psyche and timeline convolutions, becomes more prominent in the closing act.
- Redux Redux offers a punchy murder-revenge angle to the genre.
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