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  The Others 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Sep 2023

  “The only thing that moves here is the light, but it changes everything.” In its largely unexpected 4K restoration, undertaken before a Criterion release, Amenábar’s classically inclined ghost story retains an atmospheric presence above all else, creeping fog and looming shadows contributing to the kind of hushed, slow-burning mood the film so openly courts. Though it’s squarely within the Victorian tradition, there is within the film such a driving theme of lost signals, blind faith, and failures to communicate that…

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  El Conde 2023

  ★★ Watched 18 Sep 2023

  That El Conde won a prize for best screenplay in Venice is encouraging all the worst instincts in Pablo Larraín, whose metaphorical theatrics—here enabled by Ema’s Guillermo Calderón—are surely intended to accentuate the absurdity of power but settle for making an overwrought, almost Waititi-level spectacle of the larger sociopolitical allegory he’s swinging for. Instead of getting to the heart of things, Larraín clearly fancies himself a surrealist, more prone to making flamboyant anti-biopics than their typical inverse. Here, as in Spencer, his…

Popular reviews

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  The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Jul 2020 17

  call me by your name, and then i will also call myself by your name

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  Anna and the Apocalypse 2017

  ★★★★★ Added 6

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