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Azrael 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Once again, as a member of the Letterboxd community, I feel it is my duty to help professional critics understand a film they get paid actual money to review. Here we go.
First. No, Azrael is not incomprehensible. Katz leaves plenty of breadcrumbs for us to follow. Follow them. It’s fun.
Second. No, dialogue would not improve the film; it would fundamentally change it. Silence serves a thematic purpose here. I shouldn’t have to explain this.
Third. Yes, several moments…
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Hagazussa 2017
There’s much to admire about this film. The cinematography alone deserves a viewing. If nothing else, Hagazussa works as an experience of deeply disturbing, ethereal beauty.
Most moving is its storytelling. Albrun’s arc operates both supernaturally and prosaically. The life she experiences can be understood as that of a human outsider, social isolate, and practical survivor; or the inevitable result of her witchy, quasi-human bloodline, the stuff of faerie. We’re never explicitly told which. I submit the best answer is both. …
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Manos: The Hands of Fate 1966
This is the worst film ever made. Seriously.
I don’t want to mince words here. It’s genuinely horrendous. The absolute bottom of filmmaking.I’m so impressed Letterboxd lists it.
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Nightmare Alley 2021
My world is better when del Toro is in it, even when he’s not at his best. Nightmare Alley could have been great. It’s not. That’s ok.
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