Beautifully shot and scored. I love how Carpenter really takes his time to develop a sense of place and atmosphere before the killing starts, like in Halloween. I also like how the whole movie is an implicit rejoinder to the hollow patriotism of the 70s bicentennial celebrations ("We're celebrating murderers"). It's a shame that the town itself is left mostly unexplored, though, as we don't get to meet many of its residents and the fog's invasion is ultimately contained to…

Really found myself bored for much of this movie's 2 hours. It's annoying how these legacy sequels always feel the need to construct themselves around shots, lines, and plot events that reference the older entries in their respective franchises. And of course we get an actual character from one of the previous films, resuscitated as an uncanny valley CG zombie.

Also didn't like how the roving camerawork is always surveying the space of the ship, depriving it of any mystery.…

A lesser movie would've treated this type of ingenue character with condescending irony. I love that this film instead takes a tender and empathetic approach, always treating Adriana's dreams and aspirations seriously, never wagging a finger at her desire to partake in all the pleasure and excess of 60s Rome.

The movie equally celebrates and critiques that culture of excess. Nearly every frame is filled with some kind of signifier of Italy's so-called "miraculous" postwar economic resurgence: bikinis, fitted suits,…