Duncan Anderson

Duncan Anderson

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Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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  • Shiva Baby

    ★★★★

  • Come and See

    ★★★★★

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    ★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

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  • Shiva Baby

    Shiva Baby

    ★★★★

    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.

  • Come and See

    Come and See

    ★★★★★

    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

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    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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