Freud's Last Session (2023) review

Oxford professor Clive Staples Lewis (Matthew Goode) meets with the legendary Dr. Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins) in London in 1939 (around the time when the Nazis were invading Poland) and the two discuss their opposing positions as to whether or not God exists: Lewis, a "Christian apologist," is convinced there is a Supreme Being while the Austrian neurologist, dying from cancer (and using morphine to stop the pain), does not (and is quite adamant about it).  It's a purely hypothetical scenario - the real Lewis and Freud most likely never got together - and, in theory, should have been a fun one for fans of either esteemed intellectual, but the script (based on a play by Mark St. Germain) lacks any sort of subtlety - both men take turns getting on their pulpit - and the transitions to "previous events" are clumsily handled: Lewis has flashbacks of fighting in World War I and Freud has over-the-top "hallucinations" that could have come out of a cheap horror movie.  The insinuation that Freud's "domineering" parenting style is what led his daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries) to "lesbianism" is a final kick in the keister: I don't think that's how sexual attraction works.