schnofel
Criticker Zealot
Member Since: 23 Mar 2006
Location: Austria
Age: 41
Bio: www.instagram.com/rauchenwald.photo.film
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The Long Walk (2025) - Rated 16 Sep 2025
"Quite a superlatively acted war drama (without the war, but at the time of its writing it was Vietnam) that floats on the metaphorical heartbreak of our current society. Between the punctuation of killing yet another young man, we get pages and pages of hanging out and reminiscences of dark days gone by. I admit I don't quite understand the purpose of this walk and why anyone would participate, and that Squid Game numbed me to the fascination of its deadly predictability. But hey, intense it is."
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) - Rated 12 Sep 2025
"Snappy, alive, with an eye for the streets and an ear for the times. But what is engaging is really Lee's direction, not the material that goes in and out of focus."
Sovereign (2025) - Rated 30 Aug 2025
Sorry, Baby (2025) - Rated 29 Aug 2025
Weapons (2025) - Rated 26 Aug 2025
"No matter the variations in tone, what the occult, underwritten bad guy imparts is a horror genre that does not transcend itself. So have your metaphors if you want, I'm not convinced that we're dealing with more than exploitation effects, which are too prevalent in modern cinema anyway. The tossed off trauma of the ending also sits wrong with me. And yet it's a striking film; one that would have benefitted from a few calibrations."
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) - Rated 26 Aug 2025
28 Years Later (2025) - Rated 24 Aug 2025
F1: The Movie (2025) - Rated 21 Aug 2025
"The worst kind of corporate advertising masquerading as a film."
Eddington (2025) - Rated 14 Aug 2025
The Naked Gun (2025) - Rated 03 Aug 2025
"Some things are so their own that they cannot be copied. Whatever one thinks of them, who would consider remaking Keaton, Chaplin, the Marx brothers, Lewis, or, say, Sandler? Of course, writers can get together and copy the style, even get a few laughs out of that exercise, but aesthetically it'll be a waste. Speaking of - ZAZ framed their films beautifully, each line reading and edit was sophisticated. The new one? Well, it's diverting."
