Noah Mehl

Noah Mehl

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Cure
  • The Elephant Man
  • October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

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  • Heretic

    ★★

  • Dial M for Murder

    ★★★★½

  • Memories of Murder

    ★★★★★

  • Miss Congeniality

    ★★½

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  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★

    Having your firmest beliefs challenged can be a terrifying experience. The issue is, if your beliefs aren't challenged by this, it will fail to be scary on its central premise. If your beliefs are challenged by this, which would be surprising, you won't like it anyway.
    What's left to scare you are horror movie tropes borrow from hundreds of other mediocre horror movies before it:
    1) creepy intelligent mansplainer
    2) dark rooms
    3) trapped in a house
    4) gross stuff

  • Dial M for Murder

    Dial M for Murder

    ★★★★½

    Fuck the patriarchy, listen to women

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  • The Elephant Man

    The Elephant Man

    ★★★★★

    "Never. Oh, never. Nothing will die. The stream flows, the wind blows, the cloud fleets, the heart beats. Nothing will die."

    Far from his most surreal and arguably his most humanistic, David Lynch constructs a remarkably human film based on a remarkable human, maybe best showing what made him so unique as an artist. The portrayal of the surreal as deeply human.
    Despite being one of the least "Lynchian" and most "normal" Lynch films, this strikes at our conception of…

  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    ★★½

    If I spent $120 million to see this, I probably would have liked it better.

    Even if it asks the right questions, this certainly doesn't have the answers.