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

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  • Doppelganger

    ★★★★½

  • The Electric State

    ★★

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 2

    ★★★★

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    ★★★★½

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  • Doppelganger

    Doppelganger

    ★★★★½

    Would make a great triple bill with Mulholland Drive & De Palma’s Sisters. Silly, inspired, trashy & lovingly made. Way more batshit than it initially lets on.

  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★★

    This movie is straight up using civil rights imagery to argue unequivocally for AI personhood in 2025 & while I guess that is bold it also feels woefully tone-deaf and poorly thought-through.

    Can imagine this would make for a fun graphic novel, but it makes for a high gloss, aggressively meh movie, with a weak script & actors who aren’t doing anything more than what is demanded of them, which is not much. Some fun production design, and my kids loved it. But deeply forgettable.

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  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    ★★★★½

    The style IS the substance. 

    “Wiggle your big toe”

  • 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.