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  Review by josh lewis ★★★ 3

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

  asia argento ✅, misogynistic black-gloved serial killer ✅, blind prostitute whose dog tears a mans throat out in vivid detail ✅, overbearing synth score ✅, a little kid rocking a psp in 2022 ✅.

  id say the king is back.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½ 1

  Very stripped down. Set pieces are mellow in a way they have never been on Argento before. Very much centered in what it means to be a victim in a serial killer film. A metagiallo about the actual collateral damage of all the killing in every previous Argento film. So, the energy is intentional not that high (more gore than thrills), it is not Opera, it is not about putting a scene, but about going into the emotional links those scenes left behind. There's barely a narrative exactly, just those hyperlinks between characters caught under the killer’s gaze with the terrific score doing a lot of the heavy lifting as far as sustaining momentum. The final 15 minutes are quite…

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  Review by 1313: Tony the Terror🌨️ ★★★★½ 14

  Even I, surely his greatest disciple, was cautiously optimistic about this movie, but I’m beyond pleased to say that it is a beautiful return to form for our lord and savior, Dario Argento!

  A blind prostitute and an orphaned Asian boy team up against a black gloved killer which is certainly an original approach to a traditional giallo storyline, although even that isn’t as traditional as it sounds. The first half definitely reminds me of his old school giallo before it switches gears in the second half and becomes an incredibly tense game of cat and mouse between the killer and the unlikely duo.

  Speaking of that duo, they are adorable together and Diana (the prostitute) is one of Dario’s…

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  Review by Ichi_The_Killer ★★ 3

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  Review by Dyrnott ★★★

  From the master Dario Argento. A shudder original. It is nice to new movie from Dario Argento but this one was kinda boring. It is watchable and has merit because of Dario Argento. It is not unbearable. I would like to see more shudder originals from horror masters. You can check it out on Shudder.

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  Review by Mike Thorn 3

  Heavily indebted to Poe, Argento's filmography consistently inhabits spaces of unreason, disorder, and perverseness. This is certainly true of Dark Glasses, which sees capacity for randomness and destruction both within and outside the human (see the solar eclipse, the pit writhing with vicious snakes, the cruel murders). More surprising is that this film offers such a hopeful and empathetic tribute to social outsiders, the sorts of people that Argento rightfully recognizes at the core of horror (a genre whose best works are almost always for, by, and/or about "misfits"). Centering on a friendship between a blind sex worker and an orphaned immigrant boy, Dark Glasses is a crystalline demonstration of Argento's formal intelligence, fine-tuned over half a century of cinematic…

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  Review by Adrian 🥐☕ ★★★½ 14

  D. Argento #20 --- Going into Occhiali neri I was optimistic. I figured it would be at least better than his last two movies because it didn't have the troubled production of those. Thankfully I got exactly what I hoped for: a totally absurd story with nasty gore and a lot of fun to be had. I had the pleasure to watch it on its world premiere with the Maestro himself introducing it. Some cast members (including Asia and the lead actress Ilenia Pastorelli) and the cinematographer were also present. Dario didn't say much besides Ciao and Grazie but he seemed happy. I also met up with fellow letterboxd user Robert whose review of the film you find here.

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  Review by Slig001 ★★★½ 3

  Dario Argento is back with a script he wrote in the nineties (according to his autobiography) Dark Glasses heakens back to his earlier style with many of the familiar elements - set piece murders, grisly gore, a pumping synth score, animal attacks, weird logic and more - but then at the same time this is not typical Argento. There's a much stronger focus on the characters and their plight. The plot hinges on a car crash caused by a serial killer; leaving a prostitute without her sight and a young boy without his parents. The middle section deals with the pair adjusting to their situation and forming an unlikely bond. It's delicately portrayed and gives weight to the more familiar…

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  Review by Will Sloan

  Late-period Dario Argento movies are guilty until proven innocent, but there are benefits to low expectations, and I had a pretty good time with this no-frills, back-to-basics exercise. Dario is playing the hits here (we've got a black-gloved killer who cuts women's throats to a pounding synth score), and doing it skilfully, and unlike a lot of the classic Argentos, this runs less than 90 minutes, so there's less time for boredom.

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  Review by Fário. 3

  FINALLY

  NEW DAFT PUNK STUFF
  edit 22/02/2021: AGH GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
  edit 22/02/2022: lol

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  Review by Justin Decloux ★★★½

  You have to adjust expectations: DARK GLASSES is akin to watching an 81-old man run a marathon at a decent clip.

  He used to be a master at it in his prime, but for the last twenty years, he'd faceplant a few steps in, shit his pants explosively, or run in the opposite direction while screaming obscenities. We all assumed he didn't have it in anymore - and that's fine. Time comes for us all.

  Yet somehow, Argento not only gets a solid speed going this late in the game, but he does it with style (He still has some!) and gets a new perspective on it (A blind woman teams up with a young Chinese Boy to catch a…

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  Review by Roberts Ramschfilme ★★★★ 13

  You can find a full review in german here.
  
  Despite my prior hype I really wasn't sure how this would turn out but let me tell you guys that with Occhiali Neri Dario Argento is back with full force. His first directional effort in ten years has got everything that made him so influental in the 70s and 80s. The look is absolutely gorgeous, the music both mesmerizing and striking and there is some really weird stuff going on that somehow manages to be hillarious and frightening intense at the same time.

  While Argentos most movies post Opera lacked that eye popping visuals while being kinda unspectacular plot wise, his new film succesfully handles both plot and style. Just as…