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Napoleon 2023
The most overrated director of all time. Directs like a hormonal 14 year old edgelord yet still finds a way to produce the blandest, most ineffectual set of empty, poorly-lit images.
I’d much rather something tasteless than not having any taste at all. This is a desert of meaning; the poetry, personality and courage of a true cinema desiccated, left standing only the mirage of spectacle.
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Nosferatu 2024
Aesthetic masterpiece. Narratively clunky and overstuffed. I don’t think Eggers understood that Nosferatu is shadow, he doesn’t just reside in it; the mystery and ambiguity is the point. But most importantly, Lily-Rose Depp has arrived, channeling an energy found in Schneider and Adjani in Zulawski’s work.
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The Mask 2023
This acid hellride of a schizo-zoomer shitpost is legitimately incredible cinema. I never thought I’d see an auteur with a signature of improv-vlogging at a 360 camera on a selfie stick but here we are.
I understand it’s a meme and we’re all doing the joke reviews because how cringe would it be to take this stuff seriously but this man is a true artist who’s actually saying something uncomfortably real about our descent into madness via social media and the ever-growing…
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Baby Reindeer 2024
Trauma taking precedence over story, aesthetics and performance. With some validating insight into entertainment’s dark underbelly and the psychology of those consumed by their need for external approval. Credit to Richard Gadd for his courage.
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