Very funny, but a couple of ham-fisted performances, notably Mark Ruffalo. It has some good big set pieces but I think the film actually shines in the quieter moments, especially the scene with Anamaria Vartolomei. Pattinson knocks it out the park.
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The Brutalist 2024
Watching in 70mm is a joy. Lighting, cinematography, staging, are all amazing. Brody, Jones and particularly Pearce are brilliant. However this film left me wanting. We get flashes of ideas and a few fleshed out ones. But ultimately I think this film fails to give me enough of what I think is great about it, which is odd given its 3.5hr run time. It’s good, sometimes even brilliant, and unfortunately derivative, taking a lot of inspiration from PTA and Spielberg…
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Conclave 2024
Conclave is beautifully shot and incredibly well acted. However, it suffers from the same thing that most hollywood films suffer with, which is “The Idea” overreaching the plot. The film aims to portray realistic factions during a conclave and almost gets there with its portrayals and then abandons all reality at the end in favour of idealism. The ending is really quite bad. Not to mention Ralph Fiennes’ fleetingly mentioned and pointless “crisis of faith”, which never goes anywhere. The…
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Nosferatu 2024
This was one of my most anticipated films in the last two years. Robert Eggers is a director that I respect immensely because his period films seem like capsules of the time they are in, rather than vehicles for directors to spout whichever new thing they learnt in therapy.
This film is everything I wanted. It nails the Gothic tone, and imagery through its fantastic cinematography and also its great casting. None of these actors look like they have ever…
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