Yorgos Lanthimos

Three siblings have been raised in bizarre isolation.

One thing I can say for certain is I have never seen a movie anything like this before. It's very interesting, and very well made, but too disturbing to be entertaining. In a DVD bonus feature, the director said he wanted to make you laugh, then a second later feel wrong about laughing at it. That about sums it up.

Concept: A
Story: C
Characters: A
Dialog: A
Pacing: B
Cinematography: A
Special effects/design: B
Acting: B
Music: B

Enjoyment: C show more plus

GPA: 3.2/4 show less

2023 movie #4. 2015. In The City, being single is illegal, so when David's (Farrell) wife leaves him he has 45 days to find a new love or he gets surgically changed into the animal of his choice (a lobster). A seriously odd movie but oddly compelling. Also with Rachel Weisz.

If hotel guests/prisoners don't fall in love, they're turned into animals.

Unpleasant and boring, but weird enough that I felt the need to watch it through to the end.

Concept: B
Story: C
Characters: D
Dialog: C
Pacing: F
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: D
Music: C

Enjoyment: D

GPA: 1.8/4

2024 movie #59. 2023. Very strange retelling of the Frankenstein's monster story with Emma Stone as the monster. Good movie but weird. Stone deserved her Oscar for her work here as it looked like a very hard role to play and see did it very well. #PoorThingsFilm