Like ninety percent of the sports films, it ticks the box of every cliché imaginable: outcast and stubborn trainer manages to transform a underdog team and lead them to ultimate victory against all odds after having overcome the initial skepticism and even outright hostility of the local community, which at the beginning predictably fails to recognise his genius. It's not so much the clichés themselves but the dramatically random and inconsequential way they are handled like, for example, in the…
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Nosferatu 2024
Eggers revisits the classic Dracula story as it provides another opportunity to showcase his talent in the minutiae of historical period recreation. The production design is indeed exquisite and almost all the individual scenes have a visual splendor that does not feel fake nor AI generated. However, Eggers has a penchant for overdirecting each scene; several sequences reach an unexpected climax therein and the only way Eggers devises to proceed is by a jarring cut, which hurts the narrative continuity,…
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Mistress America 2015
84 interminable minutes of watching hipsters, hipster-wannabes, and other self-important twats uttering seemingly pithy yet actually astounding dumb one-liners about everything that crosses their paltry mind is too much of a task. Baumbach can't even make up his mind whether to satirise, a task for which he has no skills whatsoever as the awfully executed segment in the countryside house shows, or to sympathise with this putrid generation of narcissists. Ghastly.
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Blackhat 2015
Criminally underrated, this is one of the very few films that seriously tackles the issue of interaction between cyber and physical world and it does so without resorting to the fluffiness of a reality/virtual reality dichotomy (cf. Matrix). This film purposely explores how cyber technology has altered people's connection with the everyday reality and how it can be used for nefarious goals, aiming at establishing new forms of power. A single individual can today cause massive damage with worldwide repercussions…
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