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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
This must be what it feels like to go mad.
I always think of TCM as one of those rough-around-the-edges productions that betrays its low budget and the inexperience of its director, but it’s truly one of the most impeccably crafted films I’ve ever seen. It’s a masterclass in how to use sound design and film editing to subliminally manipulate an audience and make the imagery seem even more unhinged and unsettling than it already is. The gorgeous cinematography is so much…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023
There are now two multiverse movies where a bagel serves as a crucial plot point in a villain’s origin story, and BOTH of them became the highest-rated movie on Letterboxd.
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music 2025
I wish this was 10 hours long but I can’t imagine how much work must have went into the two hours we got. The editing in this is truly remarkable, especially in the extended opening montage of remixed musical performances. Astounding work.
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Nosferatu 2024
The mustache plays, ya’ll.
My wife was pretty sad that Count Orlok “looked like that” the whole movie. I may have accidentally set her up to think that he would pull a mid-movie turn like Hot Gary Oldman in BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA. My bad.
Can we talk more about the fact that this movie is very funny? It has a real cheeky sense of humor that I didn’t expect from Eggers (which was very silly of me considering this is…
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Murnau is clearly an extremely gifted filmmaker. I love his work, and this movie is a dazzling technical achievement. Those sets and tracking shots are extraordinary for 1927. But the husband’s abusive behavior is too easily forgiven for me to believe in the rekindled romance in the second half, especially when those, admittedly, tender moments are interrupted by scenes where he threatens a man with a knife and tries to start a fight with a man who encourages him to…
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Dawn of the Dead 1978
This is, without a doubt, the best adaptation of SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON ever made.
Strikes the perfect balance between the wish fulfillment fantasy and brutal tragic reality of society in free fall, and does so with a relentless pace. The action is constant but never becomes monotonous thanks to some of the finest film editing I’ve ever seen. It also remarkably still feels novel and relevant today despite the fact that every zombie tale told since has stolen something from…
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