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Lately, it feels like every movie has us thinking, “What the fuck did I just watch?” In this series, we will break down exactly what happened in all those wild, mind-bendy, and just plain strange flicks...in a way that’s much easier to understand than the actual film.

In 2016, the actress Haley Bennett was positioned as the Next Big Thing: this Jennifer Lawrence look-alike, with plump porcelain cheeks blushed by the softest rosacea. She was hailed as a total star, a babe. Bennett costarred in The Magnificent Seven, The Girl on the Train with Emily Blunt, and a handful of other films that year. Then—professionally, anyway—she appeared to slow down.

Last week, “The Invisible Man” served up a potent meditation on domestic abuse, then diluted it with campy scares. The quieter “Swallow” follows with a different body horror scenario: What happens when a woman’s trauma is directed inward?

Haley Bennett was 19 when she made her film debut as pop star Cora Corman in 2007’s “Music and Lyrics.” About nine years later, after appearing in about a dozen more movies, she was hailed as Hollywood’s next big starlet for her starring role opposite Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in the 2016 remake of “The Magnificent Seven” and for her work as the mysterious Megan in “The Girl on the Train,” the adaptation of the novel of the same name.