Right, that’s it. Coherence has officially made its way onto my list of all-time favourite films.
I first watched it back in 2023 and it absolutely blew my mind. Watching it again reminded me why I loved it so much in the first place. It also confirmed my long-held belief that low-budget films often have the best ideas.
It sits comfortably alongside films like Primer, Cube and Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. They all have that same eerie feeling where something isn’t quite right, and the less you know going in, the better.
What surprised me most was how quickly it hooked me. Within minutes of the dinner party starting, I was already deciding who I liked, who I didn’t trust and who was definitely talking about people behind their backs. For a while, it felt like I was watching an especially awkward episode of The Bear.
Then the comet arrives.
And everything changes.
I’m deliberately avoiding spoilers because this is one of those rare films where discovering what’s happening is half the fun. What starts as a slightly uncomfortable dinner party slowly turns into something much stranger, much cleverer and much more unsettling.
The tension keeps building, the questions keep coming and every answer somehow creates three new questions.
By the time the ending arrived, my brain felt like it had been put through a washing machine.
In the best possible way.
What made this rewatch even better was watching it with my son, who’s now old enough to appreciate films like this. Seeing somebody experience all those twists and turns for the first time almost felt like watching it for the first time myself.
If you’ve never seen Coherence, do yourself a favour and go in completely blind. Trust me.
You’ll be seeing double.
Or maybe more than double.
5/5
