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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023
Dial of Destiny gets right so much of what Crystal Skull got wrong: Marion is treated as a whole human being, Jones is a whole human being, and the villains have real presence. The camera doesn't swing around during action sequences, untethered from reality. When incredible things happen, characters are suitably impressed. And it's consistently amusing how Jones and Voller seem to resent being stuck in an action movie.
As a love letter to the franchise, Dial delivers nostalgia in…
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Nosferatu 2024
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Everyone is so excited that he's coming, but nobody wants him to actually have arrived.
Count Orlok is perfectly demonic. "I am an appetite, nothing more." A lawyer who learned about consent and immediately started thinking of how he could weaponise it. I think he's a bit more compelling, as a villain, than Count Dracula. Dracula finds meaning in his identity as a Count, proclaiming his superiority over others. For Orlok, this is stripped away. He revels in victimising people,…
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008
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Indiana Jones is only ever good when it's about fighting Nazis.
His tomb raiding is portrayed as all fun and games, but the nature of real-world imperialism haunts this franchise at every turn. When Jones' adventures are in service of stopping Nazis from achieving some cosmic power, I found it easy enough to get swept up in them; but without that fig leaf, his actions are less excusable, and I end up disconnected from the experience. Each film evokes Allan…
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