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Nosferatu 2024
I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of Eggers' "Nosferatu". It is extremely atmospheric and the scenes are downright frightening and discomforting. Hutter's fever dreamish experience while staying at Orlok's castle was great and I was hooked throughout that part.
Unfortunately, the second half of the movie fell flat and simply felt unfocused and honestly even a bit goofy to me. I think that the dialogue is simply quite poor and I just completely stopped caring about what was going on in the story.
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The Deepest Breath 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This documentary has stunning footage and is overall well directed, but it is way too long for the amount of actual interesting content it contains and behind the beautiful underwater shots hides an extremely shallow film. For example, they could have explored in more depth what actually moves these people to participate in this, in my opinion, absolutely insane and ridiculous extreme sport. Maybe they could have interviewed medical experts about the kind of physiological changes someone's body goes through…
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The Creator 2023
These two stars are mostly for the visuals. Everything looks like standard sci-fi and there is not much creativity in the designs, but pure on a technical level the visuals are undeniably a strong aspect of the movie. I read that the budget was relatively low, so hats off to the VFX team for their solid work. Many design choices did come across like they were trying too hard to make everything look futuristic though. For example, I did not…
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