Mandy (2018) ****

Mandy (2018) holds up well on "Take 2" and I liked it even more this go around (my initial review here). What stood out in particular this time was the humor throughout and also how I longed for more moments between Red and the titular character that we get so few of in the first half of the film. To paraphrase some thoughts by actor Linus Roache (who plays the villain of the piece), Mandy is a mystical, metaphorical, phantasmagoric tale of love and revenge from visionary (overused term, but truly applies here) director Panos Cosmatos.