As an avid fan of Eggers work, you cannot present me with a film of his that I will not appreciate — even just visually. Eggers and his team (I am specifically thinking of the brilliant Jarin Blaschke as cinematographer and ingenious Damian Volpe as sound design/editor) are masters of making the audience squirm in discomfort, plugging their ears or turning their faces away as the great vampire Nos inhales gasping lungfuls of blood straight from a victims’ chest. They…
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All of Us Strangers 2023
Don’t let this get tangled up again.
Eventually, I stopped attempting to wipe my tears away.This film left everyone in the theater sitting until after the credits finished rolling. It is as heartbreaking as is humanly possible and brutally original in its honesty. I am still crying while writing this, and my best friend has left to take a walk around the block.
All of Us Strangers hits far too close to home. The palpable grief of losing and…
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Saltburn 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Love this movie, hate this movie, will-never-be-able-to-unsee this movie— it honestly doesn’t matter.
But I know for a fact that there is NO WAY any of us walked out of the theater without being, on some gloriously unhinged level, absolutely fucking floored by Barry Keoghan and his performance.
Utterly fucking smashed it.
Definitely one of my top favorite films of 2023. What can I say, I’m a fool for symbolic imagery, strategic song choice, and homoeroticism. And sometimes, just some wildly fucked up nonsense 🤷♀️
Anyone else catch the reference to Mary Shelley and her mother’s grave during that 👀 scene? POETIC CINEMA
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