Got the 2k Criterion restoration of this for my birthday, and wowee what a gift. It looks simply astonishing, and takes a near-perfect film to a basically-perfect place. Well worth the don't-check price point.
What a film. If I ever produced something a tenth of the quality of Stalker, I'd be running around listing myself in the top 10 filmmakers of all time. A film of unplummable, infinite depths, which commands your attention and engagement and has you staring down…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I saw the trailer, I saw the director and star, and I was in and avoided everything else.
It's... tough for me. There's a lot to love: Pattinson is unsurprisingly great in the newest entry of what is quickly becoming the most exciting and proficient career of our times. It's stocked with plenty of gear comedy at all scales. It's directed with confidence and a clearly singular vision.
It's also an absolute mess. The plot is nonsensical to well beyond…
Witches. Cumbria. Multiple suicides. Piss. What's not to love?!
Most of it, really.
Brendan Fraser plays the world's healthiest Overwatch 2 player in Aranofsky's newest depression-fest, and boy does he.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room: Brenda Fraser is Back(?) A small part of me worried that the hype was simply a product of internet adoration and collective guilt from an industry that so coldly discarded Fraser, but I'm happy to report that he is absolutely electric. You'd be forgiven after sitting through all the Mummy sequels for thinking that Fraser…
