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The Fundamentals of Caring 2016
I picked this movie from a Netflix trailer specifically because it seemed undemanding--I was watching tv with a friend who tends to talk through movies, so there's no point screening "Last Year at Marienbad" with her.
This is the kind of movie where every character arcs neatly and tidily, everything mentioned even briefly has some kind of payoff, and every little conflict is happily resolved. The cast is likable and there are laughs and tears, so it hits all the…
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
I was slightly disappointed in the lack of any cheese talk in this one. Also--I love penguins so much, that I had a hard time believing that a penguin could be evil. Perhaps he was hardened by life in the zoo, Overall, the usual good time.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Klaus Kinski’s Dracula is such a deeply mournful and tortured vampire, that one feels he has deliberately sought his obliteration at the movies end. Herzog’s Nosferatu is an idiosyncratic and effective interpretation which nonetheless pays respectful homage to the Original film. Great score, and amazing performances by Kinski and Adjani. More creepy and macabre than terrifying—except for all those rats! Eek! i now await the Robert Eggers version.
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A Different Man 2024
I was expecting "body horror", or something like that, but what I got is a bittersweet parable about the nature of beauty, the nature of identity and the need to be loved for who you are. Kinda like a really solid Twilight Zone episode with fine performances all the way around. They made a laudable decision to avoid a cliched twist at the end--the twists come in the middle--but what does come at the end was just some unnecessary business. Over-all though, the writing is sharp and funny, and tinged with melancholy.
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