This movie feels almost trite to review considering the amount of thought and care of the various reviews that have been added and I'm sure that there's very little new things that I can add to the conversation around this film.
Nevertheless, I was so impacted by the way this movie approached and understood faith and spirituality (I know a lot of people say it's about religion and I know Tarkovsky had a lot of thoughts about Orthodox Catholicism, but…
I rewatched Zone of Interest today and after reading Letterboxd reviews I’ve realized that people genuinely do not like to see a film about the Holocaust that doesn’t make sure you get shown that there’s a good guy there through it all to help save the day.
People are uncomfortable with the fact that the movie “hits you over the head with it’s message” and then insist the message is about the banality of evil when the movie is not…
An absolute masterpiece of special effects and an inscrutable plot
Second viewing.
So, it’s gonna be hard to pick my top film of 2024 with Nosferatu coming in so strong, and perfectly made as a film.
When creating a remake to a classic film it’s essential that one either improved upon what made the original great, or it needs to find something new and unique to do.
Egger’s Nosferatu manages to do both masterfully. It’s a terrifying gothic horror film that builds suspense and dread as well as either of…
Wow, probably the best creature effects since The Thing.
What a heartbreaking, beautiful, and elegant film that really just reminds me so viscerally of how brutally and carelessly we reduce women to objects of sexual pleasure and nothing else. I really was blown away by the way that the male gaze in film was so well mocked a - Dennis Quaid was amazing - and I was deeply disturbed by a lot of the way that male objectification can be so…
