There’s Nothing Nice to Say About the ‘Speak No Evil’ Remake

• Christian Tafdrup’s acclaimed 2022 Danish thriller Speak No Evil derived squirm-inducing suspense from its portrait of escalating social transgressions and the passivity that allows them to proliferate.A mere two years later, writer/director James Watkins remakes that international hit in the English language with a variety of tweaks that don’t rectify its source material’s primary shortcoming (namely, a finale that relied too heavily on apt, if unbelievable, behavior) but do manage to undercut