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schnofel
Criticker Zealot
# Film Ratings: 6616
Member Since: 23 Mar 2006
Location: Austria
Age: 41
Bio: www.instagram.com/rauchenwald.photo.film

Recent Ratings

82 92%
One Battle After Another (2025) - Rated 27 Sep 2025
I don't think I can overstate its directorial brilliance - from one cut to the next, it's joyful and aesthetically on point. World-class performers indulge in comical anxiety, tight suspense, a jazzy, light-handed, absurd touch. Better than everything I see. But politically, it overreaches. While scarily topical, the 60s/Antifa revolutionaries serve an action thriller. And in this context, the gassing and burning of a Nazi is an unearned irony, one of many images too ugly to have to consider.
67 67%
Relay (2025) - Rated 25 Sep 2025
55 44%
Dracula: A Love Tale (2025) - Rated 22 Sep 2025
52 40%
The Shrouds (2024) - Rated 20 Sep 2025
63 58%
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.
66 64%
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.
80 91%
Sovereign (2025) - Rated 30 Aug 2025
73 80%
Sorry, Baby (2025) - Rated 29 Aug 2025
52 40%
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.
12 2%
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) - Rated 26 Aug 2025