When they aren’t serving as a majestic backdrop to searing accounts of personal recovery (like “The Outrun”) or horror-thrillers like a page-turning Alice Feeney novel, remote isles tend to play host to quirky comedies these days in the style of debuting feature director Louis Paxton’s “The Incomer,” a big-hearted tale about a pair of lonesome siblings in urgent need of de-wilding.
We’ve seen recent dramedies in visually similar waters before like the Oscar-nominated splendor “The Banshees of Inisherin” and the lovely “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” two outings a lot more successful in both their dramatic touches and comedic flourishes. Still, something about “The Incomer” manages to captivate souls
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