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  The Last Showgirl 2024

  ★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  The kind of project that had so much potential and unfortunately landed in the hands of nepobaby poverty LARPers who can’t write dialogue or keep a camera in focus. 

  Pam Anderson needs 10 more starring roles immediately.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★½ Rewatched 27 Jan 2025

  Eggers commits the mortal sin of being completely expected. Nothing particularly bad here (although this is some of the worst-looking 35mm I have seen, how is this not digital?) but nothing that stands out, either. You could argue that this shows a respect for the source material, but respect bleeds into regurgitation and even regression. Past versions of Nosferatu/Dracula have done much more interesting work with the (blatantly obvious) themes of colonialism, orientalism, industrial revolution, capitalism, etc., while Eggers chooses…

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  Funny Games 1997

  ★ Added 2

  Lowering my rating upon rewatching at the risk of being defenestrated from this website. Arrogant, tendentious, half-baked, thoroughly insufferable. Yeah, this is going to be one of those rants.

  The grandiose "message" is something that anyone with half a brain cell who enjoys horror will have already figured out: watching a lot of violence desensitizes us, and as a spectator, a voyeur, we are arguably complicit in the violence we are watching. (I do think that both of these points…

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  Madeline's Madeline 2018

  ★★★★½ Added 1

  I rarely review movies on here, but while watching this film I felt the urge to share my thoughts, because I had so many. If you have ever experienced trauma, if you struggle with mental illness, if you use interiority as a coping mechanism, this film will make you feel seen and heard and understood. It's in the details of the cinematography: the handheld camera, the extreme close-ups, the shots from behind furniture and around corners. It's in the fragmented editing, the crisp and unsettling sound, the raw performances. A resonant and realistic portrayal of a mind in pain. Highly, highly recommended.

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