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Conclave 2024
The actual "thrilling" drama here is by far the best part, the thing that supersedes a million tasteless choices lurking in the foundation of this kind of pulp. My thoughts are much more negative than my feelings then- I enjoyed this! I watched it with friends (frantically deleting 84 tabs during the opening so the film would stop stalling lol) even and had a great time.
The highlights: Any actual voting sequence. When this thing allowed itself to sit in…
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Dial M for Murder 1954
first of all. must acknowledge that my mom absolutely LOVED this, which made me appreciate it more. at this point I just pick some sort of suspense/mystery at random and we both, without fail, like it.
There's some points here that start to draw on, probably because of how reliant the mystery plot is on the miniature (both in terms of the clues and the claustrophobic, often unchanging setting). But that's partially one of the joys of mysteries, honestly, the…
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Nosferatu 2024
Mostly found this enjoyable as a movie-going experience but left sort of wanting for a more thoughtful narrative. And the more distance from actually watching it, the more I keep ruminating on missteps and odd-beats, I don't know.
A Nosferatu that juggles too many plates- it feels explictly like the point here was trying to synthesize all previous film and literature into a kind of Frankenstein masterwork, a piece of this and a slice of that to maximize the rich…
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