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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I suppose the best thing that I can say is that I've seen worse. This film has a little bit more going for it then, say, Zach Snyder's Rebel Moon films, but in some ways it feels scummier because it seems infinitely more algorithmic. I feel like it's possible to get something out of this premise, just not at all in the way the filmmakers attempted.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In a world where we have Francis Ford Coppola' 1992 Dracula film, I'm not sure Eggers' take on Nosferatu proved that essential to me, which I guess is just another way of saying that I think Coppola's film is superior in every conceivable way.
To be clear, I like this film, and I give Eggers credit for creating something that at all times seems wholly committed to its organizing principle. That being said, there are a few aspects of this…
This is unmistakably a Martin Scorsese film, and yet in some strikingly profound ways it is unlike anything he's ever done. Like all Scorsese films, it is at all times vital and engrossing, but what distinguishes it is the way Scorsese forces to you sit with a level of gruesome, sickening, emotionally agonizing discomfort that is truly unique.