d_hansen

d_hansen

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  • Safe
  • Cure
  • Maborosi
  • Bound

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  • Violent Cop

    ★★★½

  • Spectre: Sanity, Madness and The Family

  • Anora

    ★★★★½

  • The Girl with the Needle

    ★★★

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  • Violent Cop

    Violent Cop

    ★★★½

    Did you really have to run him over twice to make an arrest?

  • Spectre: Sanity, Madness and The Family

    Spectre: Sanity, Madness and The Family

    ✅ Ripping off Boards of Canada 
    ✅ Ripping off Chris Marker
    ✅ Using photos of Pierre Schaeffer probably as some kind of clever Easter egg “for the heads”
    ✅ Indulgent analog media/equipment porn
    ✅ Needless exhibition of one’s own music and eurorack setup
    ✅ Cult stuff because apparently everything has to have cult stuff in it now 
    ✅ Cringe Japanophilia and vacuous philosophizing about “other” cultures

    An aggressively derivative collage of elder millennial / younger gen X hipster dude material…

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  • (500) Days of Summer

    (500) Days of Summer

    ½

    Seeping from the fissures of this hideous movie you can see the semblances of what it wants to be: a charming sleeper hit bursting with quirky personality, hipster culture references, and sardonic commentary on modern romance. What you’re actually watching, however, is a deeply contrived studio-manufactured simulation of one, so desperate to be clever yet so relentlessly trite that I could feel my brain smoothing over as I watched it, as though I were stepping into a Target renovated overnight to look like an American Apparel.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★

    You can feel the emotional stakes at work in Eggers’ very personal relationship with this project. Unfortunately, it’s generally for the worse rather than the better.

    A strained desire to impress can be felt in nearly all aspects of the movie, whether we look to its stubborn loudness and intensity, its overwrought camera movements, or the heavy-handed telegraphing of its themes and symbols. It lacks the confidence and self-assuredness needed to create the kinds of quiet, tense, truly unnerving moments…

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