Patterson’s Wager
(Canada)

A low-key charmer from new filmmaker O. Corbin Saleken, Patterson’s Wager gives the ever-likable Fred Ewanuick the gift of prognostication—although he can only see two minutes into the future. Chelah Horsdal is his not entirely unconvinced partner, although she comes from a family with its own paranormal secrets. (The clue is in that title, Sasquatch-watchers.)

It’s a rickety construct that loses its way here and there, but Saleken aces matters with a sweetly gimcrack payoff at the end.

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