Friedl Kreuser

Friedl Kreuser

Film lover & maker

Favorite films

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • All That Jazz
  • Raising Arizona
  • Pom Poko

Recent activity

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  • Ready or Not

    ★★★★

  • Harold and the Purple Crayon

    ★★

  • Late Night with the Devil

    ★★★½

  • Juror #2

    ★★½

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  • Ready or Not

    Ready or Not

    ★★★★

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

  • Harold and the Purple Crayon

    Harold and the Purple Crayon

    ★★

    Kumar is a better scene partner than the purple crayon. 

    Also: Stranger than Fiction for kids

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  • Nightmare Alley

    Nightmare Alley

    ★★★★

    Can’t hate this. Cate Blanchett & her office design deserve 3.5 stars on their own. The other half 0.5 star is for all the other sets & all the other actors, all of which are fantastic. 


    Overall, its a satisfying, dark little gothic melodrama that probably could have been a great miniseries with more backstory.

  • The Last Duel

    The Last Duel

    ★★★½

    Jodie Comer is fantastic & Ridley Scott sure knows his way around a grimy medieval epic. The structure is interesting, but it could have made the point just as well that Lady Marguerite was just an object that Matt Damon & Adam Driver projected their own subjective masculine narratives onto without chaptering each of their perspectives. In a way it lessens the impact, because Marguerite becomes the subjectively skewed hero of her own chapter, just like Sir Jean and Jacques were, and…