hilarious that this has become so discourse-generating — to me it seems pretty straightforwardly (and slapstickily!) about the humiliations inherent to proximity to wealth and, more generally, to being a worker. somewhat shaggy structurally but even the fat is entertaining, and the middle section might be the best thing Baker has done
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Flow 2024
really got me, as someone who’s currently trying to acclimate a beloved, solitary, slow-to-trust cat to the company of other animals. wonderfully hypnotic, unmoored-from-time effect created by the combination of the visual style and the bare-bones survival-adventure structure; all the animations of the little animal mannerisms are especially lovely, so precise and warm
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Nosferatu 2024
There may be no more emblematic shot in this Nosferatu than the castle approach. The haunted and hound-tailed carriage, the decrepit palace burned black on the horizon, the perfect silver moon emblazoned on the sky — an archetypal image imbued with fresh awe and terror, it speaks to the trick Eggers has pulled off here, as he harnesses the power of familiar iconography in pursuit of a vision very much his. His signature traits are supercharged: The near-fetishistic period detail…
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