The assemblage of footage from various media sources is absolutely masterful, creating a work that’s both an emotional expression and a logistically cohesive, lucid portrait of what happened during the WTO protests, almost purely through compiling existing footage and without the typical documentary talking heads/retrospective construction. It elicits a gut-wrenching present-tense immediacy, which not only leads to a greater understanding of this specific event but displays just how little things have changed in the following decades. The film is deeply…

This is what’s going to happen to me at Cedar Point next weekend, when the inexperienced (and slow!) ops crew derails Top Thrill 2. An unfortunate byproduct of the cost-cutting measures taken by Cedar Fair in their merging with Six Flags. Kidding, of course - being scared of rollercoasters is actually just GP hating airtime. Anyway, I think it’s stupid when people “stan” film studios of any kind (though I guess people only really do this with A24 and maybe…

I don’t know… it’s handsomely made, of course. Some very detailed production design, some spooky ambiance. Contains a couple of beautiful and shocking images, and a few scenes where the slickly (yet rigidly) designed tracking shots and symmetrical compositions cohere into an absorbing atmosphere (the stretch at Orlok’s castle). Unfortunately, most of this felt rigorously stylistic to the point of being lifeless. Drags along with a polished listlessness, with precision but without spark, hitting all of the expected beats in…

one of the most reddit “films” i’ve ever seen. the ultimate “I CLAPPED BECAUSE I KNOW THAT REFERENCE” movie. felt like I was watching Spiderman fanfiction written by a 3rd grader. just totally shallow and contains nothing interesting thematically beyond “ THIS!?” even in the potentially emotional moments, the emphasis is on the reference rather than any real meaning beyond a callback to something. there’s no deconstruction or anything interesting happening. any growth that Peter has in this film is…