impeccably shot, scored and acted, even with joaquin doing the annoying mumbly joaquin thing (i could not have got through this without subtitles) but it left me slightly cold in a way that i didn’t see coming an hour in. i guess i wanted it to go a little further, do a little more. obvious comparisons, but compared to the ways there will be blood or the brutalist left me on first watch, this didn’t feel like it had as…
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The Brutalist 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
had to wrestle with a few things in this but it’s an incredibly made film. i can’t fathom how you make something this grand on a 9 million dollar budget – roughly 5% of Wicked’s! just an amazing cinema experience; da moviesh distilled. intermissions IN for 2025.
obviously a film where zionism is a presence isn’t going to fall comfortably – when we left the cinema, we immediately walked past a digital LBC billboard with the headline ‘Trump insists “everybody…
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Nosferatu 2024
enjoyed it!
I think whether it’s a success or not probably hinges on what you want out of it: as a ridiculous 2025 version of Sleepy Hollow, I think it works great. as a serious elevated horror thing which is what I suspect Robert Eggers thinks it is, it’s too ridiculous to have any emotional impact.
I mean, Bill Skarsgård trained with opera singers just to end up sounding like a mean horny Yoda. I don’t think there’s a single…
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