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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  You can't hope to fight evil if you don't believe in it.

  In so many respects, Egger's adaptation is a smashing success. Captivating and profound, stylistically resonant and groundbreaking. It's clear he will keep making movies in a way no one else is doing, and you must love him for this.

  For reasons I haven't fully unpacked, I didn't find myself emotionally invested in the characters. Perhaps it was a combination of fixation on everything that was formally weird and…

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  September 5 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  A movie that doesn't take a breath, and serves up so very much to love.

  First off, the absolutely mesmerizing attention to detail in production design. It feels almost documentarian. If the cast had been less recognizable, you could have fooled me that this movie had been made back in the 70s, all the way down to the film grain. Truly incredible.

  But then, movies of that era rarely moved with this kind of perfect precision. This was one of…

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  Soul 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Jan 2021

  Pete Doctor does it again. Pixar once again proves that movies can be intensely entertaining for both kids and adults at the same time, and deliver themes of such subtle complexity it makes you wonder how other studios can bare the shame. This is a very good movie. For kids who are trying to figure out who they are, and for adults who are trying to figure out who they are, Soul has managed to illustrate perhaps the only answer that really matters.

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  Little Women 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2020 1

  What a perfect adaptation. With this film, Greta Gerwig has established herself as one of the best writer/directors working today. She made a choice to use the two parallel timelines as reflections of one another, which could have proven catastrophic to the story in less talented hands, but she managed to assemble an incredibly moving illustration of the circular nature of memory and love. It's an exquisite rendition of a powerful story. Bravo all around.

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