Sick Won’t Tell You How to Feel and It Knows Exactly What It’s Doing

Most horror movies hand you a flashlight. Sick hands you a damp towel and leaves the room.

Agata Trzebuchowska’s feature debut has no character whose reactions you can borrow. Nobody says out loud what the audience is thinking. The camera never flinches, so you have to do all the flinching yourself. The problem is that you’re never quite sure what...