Ben Kuettel

Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Pulp Fiction
  • The Prestige

All
  • Warfare

    ★★★

  • Death of a Unicorn

    ★★½

  • Havoc

    ★★½

  • Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity

    ★★★½

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Mickey 17

2025

★½ 3

Annoying and pointless satirical sci-fi that reminds one of better films and just leaves the viewer in exhaustion. The tone was all over the place and just ended up in muck. The characters were hardly developed and the make-up of the world wasn’t well defined, despite much time spent on exposition and backstory. Astonishing how much of a failure this was with so many creative elements and talent in front of and behind the camera. The cinematography, visuals, and production design were excellent, but what was it all for? Stay far away.

Evil Dead Rise

2023

★★★ Watched

The much-anticipated new Evil Dead film finally arrived a full 10 years after the surprisingly decent remake starring Jane Levy as final survivor Mia Allen. Trying to kick drugs in the abandoned cabin with some bland friends, she was able to barely escape with her life and defeat the main Deadite. Mia wandered off to leave the cursed land, forever changed by her encounter with true evil and having overcome her withdrawal. It would have been nice to see where…

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Nosferatu

2024

★★★★ Liked 2

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror was made more than 100 years ago, being a hazy, German Expressionist retelling of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with most of the copies destroyed after a legal case where it was still deemed too similar to Dracula. In the past 100 years, Nosferatu has curiously become a franchise in its own right, with numerous retellings and new versions due to its groundbreaking nature, timeless visuals, and establishing many elements of vampires for the first time. The…

Anora

2024

★★★ Watched

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