Thijs Mattheus Peter Bal

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Dutch biologist and film enthusiast / 🇳🇱🇪🇺

Favorite films

  • The Lives of Others
  • Children of Men
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • In Bruges

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

    ★★★½

  • The Shape of Water

    ★★★½

  • Goodnight Mommy

    ★★½

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  • Alice

    Alice

    ★★★★

    This was a perfect slow movie to watch on the first day of the year. From beginning to end, the creative madness is absolutely outstanding and this movie looks and sounds simply wonderful.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★½

    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

    The Deepest Breath

    ★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • The Creator

    The Creator

    ★★

    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…