I Think We're Alone Now (2018)

I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW  (2018)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Reed Morano
    Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, 
    Charlotte Gainsbourg, Paul Giamatti
As this movie begins, the apocalypse has happened, and the last man on earth (he thinks) is a small-town librarian named Del, played by Peter Dinklage. Del's an orderly, self-sufficient guy who doesn't mind the lack of company, and, in fact, prefers it. He collects and hoards batteries, goes fishing in the lake, maintains the library, and methodically goes through the houses street by street, cleaning, disinfecting, hauling away the bodies and burying them. He catalogues photographs. He keeps things neat. It turns out he's not alone, however, and a lot of the film involves Del adjusting to the presence of a second survivor, a young woman named Grace, played by Elle Fanning, and Grace adjusting to him. The movie doesn't try to explain how the end of the world happened. The two characters puzzle over it briefly, but not for very long. It's more like, here's the situation these people are in, so now what? It's a good question, and the movie, in its dark, quiet way, keeps you wanting to find out.