River (2023)

Premise: Just as the staff is getting ready for the afternoon, this traditional japanese inn gets a massive case of déjà vu. Will they find out how to get back to normal? Can they, considering things get reset every two minutes?
From the creators of Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes comes another entry in the Really Short Time Loop microgenre and the niche our movie is about two minutes that keep repeating themselves picogenre! Similar to Brightwood the other day except, the opposite of that!
Under 90 minutes? Yup! More than two minutes, mind you.
Do they say the title? Oh yeah they do.

One sentence review: Just like Mondays (another Japanese time loop movie), at some points and specially for some characters this is clearly a surprise horror film.
Rating: Well this was funny, charming, extremely aware of how low budget it is and really really silly and overacted at times - which can be good when you know that’s what’s their aiming for. It also has something cool over most movies on this genre: people get what’s going on really quickly so you get to the good stuff earlier. That’s quite refreshing! I wouldn’t have minded spending a bit more of time with some characters as opposed to “quick, let’s all go here to show this is a single shot!”, but other than that… Sometimes low stakes is good.
A simple way to improve it: Honestly, I get what they were going for but just like with the previous movie by the director/writer duo, the ending is a bit of a letdown. Maybe focus more on the main couple, and by that I mean the two dudes having lunch.

Trivia about the IMDb trivia:

Every time the loop starts again there is various amounts of snow from none to quite a few inches when it should be the exact same.

Buddy, this is actually brought up in the movie, the characters comment on it several times. Sure it is a way to go “look, the movie has a very low budget so bear with us”, but okay