Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979

  ★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Let’s be clear: this is almost a shot-for-shot remake of Murnau’s film with sound. Very little of interest here, except for Kinski’s supremely creepy Dracula (not Orlok), a startling proliferation of rats, Adjani’s otherworldly look as Lucy, and a plague-ridden town square dance sequence that seems to be straight out of Herzog’s nightmares. Otherwise, the acting is awful, the script is ridiculous, and the score is maddeningly repetitive.

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  Nosferatu 1922

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  It's not the story.
  It's not the characters.
  It's not the dialogue.
  It's the images.
  The sight of Orlok will never cease to creep me out.

Popular reviews

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  The French Dispatch 2021

  ★½ Watched 23 Oct 2021

  "Plot? Character development? Entertainment? I have no need for such things. My images are so enticing, my attention to detail so precise that the idea of enjoying my films has become, in fact, completely anathema."

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  Kill Your Lover 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Oct 2023

  Gnarly debut by A/K, committed performances from Murphy & Gilmour, body horror makeup effects (by Rebecca Wheeler) that will have you wondering how the F*CK they did that, a score (by Thibault Chavanis) that does a ton of heavy lifting, and sound design that makes the squishiest and squelchiest effects come to grossly practical life. This definitely opened some old wounds (figuratively speaking), but then, isn't that why we go to the movies? To be shaken... and stirred?

  Seen at the 2023 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.