The film is more like a horror film about misogyny than a biographical reappraisal. The staging, the sometimes exaggeratedly artificial camera work and the loose dramaturgical structure create a dreamlike stringing together of events. The film does not manage to tell a stringent story, and only the outstanding Ana de Armas makes you sit through the overlength.
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Gone Girl 2014
I think this is another case of "films everyone likes but me". The story is not remarkable and not particularly imaginatively staged. I lost interest in the characters after a short time and both sociopaths got on my nerves in equal measure. There are some highlights towards the end, but the way there is too sluggish.
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Knives Out 2019
This movie is entertaining from beginning to end. Clever script, nice camera work, amusing actors. A nice piece of good old filmmaking, which at the same time catapults the crime genre into modern times.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003
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I have long thought whether, and if so, how to begin a review about „The Lord of the Rings“. Because there is probably no story that means more to me and where it is so difficult for me to be objective.
I actually came across the story quite late, in 2012. I saw “The Hobbit” and even though, in retrospect, “An Unexpected Journey” doesn’t come close to “The Lord of the Rings” in…
