This one taught me that I’ll go see anything with Aaron Paul in it. I also saw Need for Speed in theaters. Lol
I do feel a little bad tearing into this one, mostly because I’ve seen the filmmaker post about it and it looks like this is his first big gig—which is awesome and genuinely exciting. But that said… here are my honest thoughts:
There’s this disconnect I’ve noticed between horror fans and cinephiles. Horror heads can either embrace…
Dang. I really didn’t like it all that much.
Steven Soderbergh seems to be in his minimalist era—two recent releases experimenting with how much he can do using as little as possible. Presence really landed with me. Black Bag, not so much.
The only moments I genuinely enjoyed were the dinner parties at the beginning… and the end. The rest of the film felt like someone recapping their day—hitting all the plot beats without showing you anything firsthand. It’s all…
Ryusuke Hamaguchi is a master of subtlety, finding an incredible confidence in a narrative pacing that, if I attempted it, would make me deeply insecure as a creative. Yet, his restraint and slowness carry immense weight, making for something both impactful and beautiful. Many of the critiques the film expresses resonate with me, and the intensity of my own frustration while watching it makes me feel like I share a similar lens on the world.
The only thing holding this…
I gotta say, your wife fantasizing and longing for her rich, powerful, sex crazed, abusive ex makes for a pretty solid horror concept. At least he ugly though. Lmao
But yea, I want to start off by saying Nosferatu is good. But I do have to say, while I wasn’t crazy about The Lighthouse when it was first released, the more Robert Eggers movies that get released the more I’m recognizing it as his masterpiece. None of his other movies…
