Review – Nosferatu (2024)

Director Robert Eggers continues his career as the bizarro world Wes Anderson. His fanatical filtering (goth grey rather than plastic-lens pastels) and obsessive centering of nearly every shot dominate the appearance of this movie so much that they distract from the story and characters, not that the latter represented much competition. Every new entry in the Murnau sub-reddit gets duller and more pointless. If there’s another one – please let there not be another one – it probably won’t even have a vampire. Not that an otherwise-talented actor stomping around in a getup that makes him look like a Russian from a McCarthy-era propaganda cartoon is much of an excuse for a bloodsucking demon. See if desperate