Robert Eggers new take on 'Nosferatu' is a wonder to behold, with etheral, almost dreamlike cinematography and shot composition steeped in purposeful darkness and sometimes almost Kubrickian symmetry. Whilst daylight scenes are ubderstandably drained of color so as to match the dreary 1800s setting, those set at night take on a silverish hue, with glinting moonlight and deepening shadows playing in such stark contrast as to emulate the black-and-white film of its German Expressionist forebear.

Performances here are all mesmerizing,…

Starting with a credits sequence that would make the best James Bond film blush, David Fincher's "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" remake quickly becomes an exercise in slow-burning tension, which should come as no surprise to fans of either Fincher or author Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. While sometimes seeming a shot-for-shot remake of the Swedish language adaptation, Fincher's "Girl" manages to still be very much its own animal, cutting away extraneous plot points that its über-faithful Swedish predecessor languished over.…

'Spider-Man: No Way Home' is the über-nostalgic culmination of 20+ years of cinematic lore that comic film fans across multiple onscreen iterations have dared to dream of. Sure, its first half isn't so much a movie as it is numerous fan service-drenched vignettes loosely strung together in order to force a plot in which all this multiversal madness could conceivably take place (the fact that the Powers That Be went so far as to adapt segments of 'One More Day'…

Alex Garland's "MEN" is an extremely frustrating film that comes so close in many instances to being halfway decent but ends up suffering under the weight of its own wannabe academic self-importance. It wants so badly to be perceived as a movie with something to say that it forgets to actually say anything at all, go anywhere with its narrative (itself seemingly an afterthought), or make any sort of cohesive narrative statement, instead delivering multiple disconnected yet admittedly beautiful vignettes--…