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“I’m thinking of ending things.”
I’m not gonna pretend I understood what was going on, but I know I enjoyed the ride. Despite its slow pace, there’s something about it that draws you in and invites pondering alongside it. I’m not entirely sure what I expected, but I think it challenged me and made me uncomfortable in a way that modern cinema rarely does. And for that, I gotta hand it to him: Kaufman’s a genius.
Amazing!
I FORGIVE YOU BLOOD.
I don’t even know how to begin talking about a film like this. What a fucking BEAST!
This film just moved me on so many levels.
God bless you, Spike Lee.
And Terence Blanchard.
Oh, and an Oscar for Delroy Lindo please!
Masterpiece.
Honestly, the absolute balls on this movie. Very bold to open on a heartfelt medical drama for 30 minutes before making one of the most slim tonal pivots I’ve ever seen on film. This puts Parasite to SHAME! 😪
Points for entertainment value alone. I need to go watch the rest of them, apparently!
Extra half-star or so for the Goat Man. And Taissa Farmiga.
Some of the scares got me only because the titular Nun is simply that scary on its own.
Otherwise, I don’t see why I should reward a movie that’s got no guts.
When I’m rooting for your movie’s antagonist (and Goat-Man!) to kill all the main characters (including a bunch of teenage girls), then I think you have a problem!
The Conjuring-CU, baby!
A deeply silly film that gets more and more ridiculous as it goes along, and also feels nothing like Edgar Wright. I know directors are allowed to evolve, but this feels messy and phoned-in in a way his films usually aren’t. There are some harrowing and spooky scenes here and there, the colors are occasionally very pretty, and Thomasin McKenzie is giving it her all, but I don’t think this works. Pretty much everything about the screenplay is just laughable,…
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“We don’t see deafness as something to be fixed.”
According to Letterboxd, this isn’t a 2020 release, so whoops. But wow, this was incredible. I’m not really sure what to say, but like: Riz Ahmed, the sound design/mixing, the serene quality that the film gradually develops as we see his journey unfold, and the way the camera captures the stillness and serenity of life without sound. It’s beautiful, and it’s heart-wrenching, and it’s perfect.
Masterpiece.
