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Nickel Boys 2024
An obviously experimental film - and in its experimentation I feel it loses sight of the narrative itself. No matter how beautifully this film is shot (probably the most breathtaking cinematography in the past year) or how innovative it is in its style, the characters and thematic core still feel underdeveloped, and difficult to connect to, as its feels more fascinated in conveying a life than telling a story.
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Nosferatu 2024
Excellently crafted film.
The night scenes are masterfully shot. There is contrast, everything is readable and clear, and it's still visually striking. The de-saturated colours are used to reflect the feelings of depression and melancholy central to the narrative, but they never look bland or uninteresting. Some insane compositions (that shot in the forked road!). There are so many bold but nonetheless effective camera moves, there are plenty of really impressive long takes that fit and don't feel distracting. Just…
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Green Room 2015
A very solid, tight thriller. I thought it could have used more development between the main members of the cast, the deaths could have felt more earned, it's stylistically not as unique as I'd have hoped for the setting and tone, and the ending isn't quite as satisfying or tense as for what I'd hoped for, but yeah, it was decently tight-paced, the action was effectively gory and visceral, and the character's largely made quite sensible decisions, which is quite…
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Woman of the Hour 2023
It just feels so weird this movie exists, especially in the way that it does. This is mostly just a Wikipedia summary of the murders. It feels kind of morbid to shoot people’s personal lives and intimate encounters like this even though they genuinely didn’t know anything about them and very little about their deaths. I always thought these true crime movies were weird, but this is particularly strange given the nature of the crimes. Why couldn’t they have just…
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