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Shiva Baby 2020
This explains so much about the tenor of media post-2020 (particularly TV dramas) and yet it’s a formula which has the potential to burn out quickly. Left wondering why no one in this could find their phone.
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Come and See 1985
Not necessarily one I was looking forward to, in part because I knew it wasn’t going to be “entertaining” in the way we often expect movies to be. In fact, that’s what I think makes Come and See so powerful and important: it exists as testimony, a hallowed and harrowed depiction of things that are real. The line between this and a more perverse indulgence in trauma can be thin- but looking to its intentions, it’s clear that Come and See never…
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The Brutalist 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Thunderous and darkly prophetic, earth and steel raised up as totems to imprisonment. The opening sequence is breathtaking: one is thrust immediately into a metaphysical catalyst, huddled masses ushered towards a new world of beautiful and terrifying gods. It’s disorienting and magnetic at the same time, capturing the essence of what it’s like to embrace something capable of dealing out equal parts promise and destruction.
I’m not sure I’ve ever experienced such a clean film for its length, and Dávid Janscó…
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Nosferatu 2024
Proper storybook horror that accomplishes as intended. Those who are familiar with Eggers will probably be left feeling underwhelmed, and I’d count myself among that group. There’s a particular willingness in his work that’s almost expected now, a ferocious exuberance that bears no caution. That doesn’t really come out here, but whether that’s a flaw may depend on what you were hoping for.
At first glance it feels like restraint, certainly when compared to his other films. With Nosferatu, Eggers…
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