Weekend Movie Forecast: Couples Retreat Vs. An Education

For Paranormal Activity, PRESS ONE. The mockumentary concerns a young, middle class couple who moves into what seems like a typical suburban “starter” tract house. You'll never guess what happens! And yet, critics seem to be generally going for it. The Onion's Nathin Rabin says it "derives much of its power from juxtaposing supernatural otherworldliness with the mundanity of the apartment where its action takes place. At best, Paranormal Activity makes the banal and commonplace deeply unsettling... The film loses some of its grimy verisimilitude toward the end, but it’s nevertheless a surprisingly effective low-budget shocker with a sensibility as current as the latest viral videos, yet rooted in the suggestive, less-is-more atmospherics of Val Lewton."