Everybody knows that Poe's stories are at best deeply ambivalent about the supernatural and generally refuse it altogether because nothing is scarier than the decay of the human body and the gnawing fear there is no afterlife, but what Mike Flanagan presupposes is... what if we crossed Succession with Final Destination and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (why, for the love of all that is good and holy would you mix the opioid epidemic into this?), tossed in a few crappy ghosts and called it The Fall of the House of Usher?
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023
A film that shows you in beautiful and intricate detail how it feels to read a captivating story.
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Aferim! 2015
Aferim! reminds me most of Hard to Be a God: to be sure, it's cleaner and funnier, and its sumptuous black and white photography and splendid landscapes also make it prettier to watch. But underneath all these lays, just as in German's film, a terrible bleakness. Aferim! may well be the most important movie made in Romania since the New Wave kicked off in 2001 with The Stuff and the Dough.
There's a curious lack of political or social critique…
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The Village 2004
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Short of Michael Cimino, has there ever been a more precipitous fall from grace than M. Night Shyamalan’s? The man went from critical and commercial success to being (wrongly) hailed Hitchcock’s heir to a glowing Cahiers du Cinéma profile to Robot Chicken punchline, critical indifference and audience contempt in barely five years and four films. His name used to be the main draw; now it’s tucked away in the trailers like a disreputable German tax loophole. And while Shyamalan’s own…
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