D. Chris Smith is the reason this lands

I came away thinking about D. Chris Smith's work as Sound Editor more than I expected. There is a nice lived-in quality to it, nothing too forced. It is the kind of performance that quietly makes the movie sturdier. The small reactions do a lot of the heavy lifting. I bought the character pretty quickly, which is not always easy in this kind of film. It is less about one scene and more about the overall aftertaste.