What if the yellow brick road led not to joy, but to desolation? Forget the songs of nineteen thirty-nine. "Return to Oz" is a descent into trauma, a psychological reckoning with a world that has moved on. We meet Dorothy Gale, played with an unsettling maturity by Fairuza Balk, not in Kansas, but in an asylum, facing the cold hum of an electroshock machine. This harrowing opening, so intense i...
