I Hired a Contract Killer is a darkly, funny crime films about a man who sucks at suicide so much that he hires a contract killer to kill him. Problem is that he ends up falling in love with a woman and its too late to end his contract.
Director Aki Kaurismaki applies his iconic deadpan humor to this story while also humanizing all his characters. I was surprised by the depth provided to the hitman character. You get a…
Robert Eggers' adaptation of Nosferatu is the best vampire film of the decade. The atmosphere fills one with dread in just about every frame of this picture. The themes of repressed sexuality in the Victorian era is presented here as violent and terrifying instead of as erotic. Nosferatu has some of the best lines of 2024 like "Some of the stuff I have seen would have made Isaac Newton flee back into his mother's womb". Willem Dafoe, Lily-Rose Depp, and…
