I can't stop thinking about this: for me, Longlegs was not the least bit overhyped, and it chilled me to the bone.
Some may call it "style over substance", but the style is the substance here. Every shot is immaculately framed, always aesthetic and always unsettling. The plot is nothing incredibly unique and it's relatively thin, but the way it's presented and told is unlike anything I've seen before. In fact, the restrained plot and detached characters are not a…
"Who started this conversation, anyhow?"
This is such an intimate yet quietly unnerving film about a paranoid and socially awkward man working in surveillance who starts fearing the consequences of his actions. I love how much it respected my intelligence, letting the story and character unfold mostly in the subtext and through camera techniques and editing: this is the old "show, don't tell" mantra done right. Mixed together with a hypnotizing soundtrack this has an almost mystical quallty to it that I struggle to express in words - what a movie...
"You thought we could be decent man in an indecent time. But you were wrong! The world is cruel. And the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced. Fair."
I'm not someone who obsessively rewatches his favorite movies over and over again, but if there is one I could rewatch without end, it would be "The Dark Knight". It's every bit as relentless and exciting as I remembered, with what I consider to be the best superhero…
Scrolling through reviews, it seems to me that many people totally misunderstand this movie. It's so clearly not trying to deconstruct any kind of ideas of identity, finding yourself or even criticising problematic structures in certain Islamic countries.
"Moon" is all about the feeling of powerlessness. Throughout the entire runtime, we are restricted to the narrow point of view of the protagonist, Sarah. We only see and hear what she sees, we never get the feel picture, like she realistically…
Dune: Part Two was basically my most anticipated movie. So, was it worth the wait?
To my surprise, I did not love this as unambiguously as Part One when I first watched it. Though it's a common thing for me to prefer the first movie in a 2-part experience - Mockingjay, Harry Potter 7 - I struggle to explain why that's the case. Maybe in such stories, the set-up is strangely more compelling to me than the pay-off. The movie…
