Marmalade (2024) review

Recently incarcerated Baron (Joe Keery) tells his cellmate Otis (Aldis Hodge) most of the history of events that led him to being arrested, which includes taking care of his terminally-ill mother who needs an expensive medication to stay alive, having a chance encounter with "free-spirit" Marmalade (Camila Morrone), falling in love with her, and then about how she convinced him to rob a bank with her (which she's supposedly done in the past).  If at any point while watching this you catch yourself wondering why it seems so flimsy and half-cocked, that's completely normal because it's a terrible mash-up of a prison movie, True Romance and at the very end The Usual Suspects, in which the character who's "as dumb as a box of crayons" is actually supposed to be a criminal mastermind and made the whole story up on the fly.  But even before "the big reveal," Marmalade is shown to be an obnoxious and shrieking psychopath and Baron's presented as this helpless dolt totally under her control - a truly grating dynamic - although it is a relief when Momma is finally revealed to be properly cared for and a pharmaceutical tycoon gets a much-deserved trip to the pokey.