Some of the crude and lazy western tropes of Japanese people that are played here for comedic effect are definitely a valid reason for anyone not to fuck with this film.
I do however think that, that aside, this is one of the most carefully wrought, tender and touching movies I have seen. Sofia Coppola's characteristic ability to infuse the camera with empathy rather than judgement is never more fully on display than here, and the cultural barrier that the…
I think this is Ari Aster's best movie and one of the best horror movies of all time. One of the most sinister movies I've ever seen, up there with "The Shining".
I think it earns its supernatural elements more than any horror movie I can think of, operating on Gabriel Garcia Marquez levels of magical realism, where we are so connected to the inner worlds of the characters that the lines between reality and the otherwordly become irrelevant.
So intense that after half an hour I felt like I had been watching it for 2 hours already, but I was completely hooked. Amazing movie
I couldn't like it as much as I wanted to.
A lot of my frustrations were epitomised by Aaron-Taylor Johnson's pointless role as the sceptical audience-conduit: everyone knows we're in a vampire movie, we don't need help anyone in the movie to help suspend our disbelief! Not only does this lazy cliché do a disservice to a filmmaker whose immense talent is plain, it also grinds the pace of the movie to a standstill and completely steals focus from the…
