Re-upped because I needed my wife to see this masterpiece. I waxed poetic about every fourth shot and she said she liked it and would give it 4 out of 5 stars if she used Letterboxd. I chalk that up as a W.
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Heretic 2024
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Mid-semester insomnia watch.
This exceeded my expectations pretty thoroughly. I went in expecting a goofy horror movie that gestured vaguely at religion. The first half, in particular, sets up a great horror premise, one that doesn't feel wildly unfamiliar, but it also doesn't reinvent the wheel.
It's a bit like if Jigsaw were a charismatic theology professor whose seminar I absolutely do not want to be in.
The first act is remarkable--the long, extended scene with Hugh Grant holding Barnes…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
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“The world has made choices for us.”
I can’t remember having an experience in the theater like this one. Mad Max: Fury Road maybe? But, much as I love Mad Max, even that comparison makes out Dune: Part Two to be much, much smaller than it is. The vast and endless desert, the brutalist architecture, the power and inevitability of history, all of that is here in spades. Without exaggeration, this is the largest, most grandiose film I’ve ever seen. This…
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Nosferatu 2024
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Just as sexy as the original!
This was the movie I was most hyped about this year. I’ve been excited for this one since it was announced Robert Eggers was directing it. I’m a sucker for Eggers’ aesthetic choices as much as his content, which is to say I’m primed to like just about everything he’s done so far.
This is great. So much modern horror gets lost in either showing us the creature entirely or hiding them away until…
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