Films you've seen at the cinema 2025

[neonwilderness]

Nosferatu

Excellent. It leans more into the classic Dracula plot in places compared to the original (presumably it can now that it's out of copyright) and Herzog's '79 version, but it's a good blend of both stories. Definitely one of the more gory versions of Dracula that I've seen too.

Spoiler

I thought they might shy away from doing the classic shadow against the wall bit, but they didn't

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The thread title should be 'pictures'.

 

[Orang Utan]

I also saw Nosferatu this evening and liked it very much.
Though some may take issue with Bill Skaarsgard’s Ventolin-grasping Deady Mercury drag performance as Count Orlock.

 

[colacubes]

Another for Nosferatu. Thought it was terrific. Nicholas Hoult seems to get a bad rap in some quarters but I’ve been a fan since The Great, which is one of the best TV series of recent years imho. Anyway I thought he was great as the slightly naive lovestruck husband of a possessed wife.

Lily-Rose Depp was great. She might be a nepo baby but she’s clearly a talented one.

Loving the Willem Defoe renaissance. He’s been in a good few of my fave films in the last 18 months.

Skarsgaard was good but it’s difficult to say if he was amazing. It was all a bit makeup central.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

I also saw Nosferatu this evening and liked it very much.
Though some may take issue with Bill Skaarsgard’s Ventolin-grasping Deady Mercury drag performance as Count Orlock.

Yes , also 4/5 from me. I thought Orlok was great. The castle scenes in particular were beautifully shot. His image went back to Vlad the Impaler.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I don’t often post on this thread but we saw Nosferatu tonight and absolutely loved it! I found it genuinely scary at points - especially in count orlok’s castle - and utterly beautiful to look at.

11/10 for me.

 

[Sue]

Better Man. Unconventionalish Robbie Williams biopic which is surprisingly really good.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Another for Nosferatu. Thought it was terrific. Nicholas Hoult seems to get a bad rap in some quarters but I’ve been a fan since The Great, which is one of the best TV series of recent years imho. Anyway I thought he was great as the slightly naive lovestruck husband of a possessed wife.

Lily-Rose Depp was great. She might be a nepo baby but she’s clearly a talented one.

Loving the Willem Defoe renaissance. He’s been in a good few of my fave films in the last 18 months.

Skarsgaard was good but it’s difficult to say if he was amazing. It was all a bit makeup central.

I like Nicholas Hoult for the same reason. The Great is brilliant and not appreciated widely enough.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Nosferatu looks amazing, sadly can't find the time for the cinema at the moment but hope to see it one day!

 

[Orang Utan]

Going to see it again tonight, with subtitles

 

[Elpenor]

I don’t like horror (am a scaredy-cat) but should probably go and see this at the week

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s a sexy film rather than a scary one IMO

 

[Elpenor]

It’s a sexy film rather than a scary one IMO

Challengers with fangs?

 

[Orang Utan]

Challengers with fangs?

Dunno, haven’t seen Challengers.
Can’t recall seeing ANY fangs tbh

 

[braindancer]

Looking forward to seeing Nosferatu on Saturday....

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Going to see it again tonight, with subtitles

I’m seriously considering going again.

 

[RubyToogood]

Nobody been to anything else?

 

[Orang Utan]

Going to see it again tonight, with subtitles

I went to see it but had to leave cos a stranger sat next to me. I was initially peeved that they’d weirdly booked a seat right next to a stranger but it just turned out that Nosferatu is packing them in in the second week, which is encouraging. Will go again next week if things have calmed down and I can secure enough space around me.

 

[Elpenor]

I was considering seeing one or more of the following this weekend, here are my prereview thoughts

Baby Girl (not really keen on the vibe)
We Live In Time (seems a bit smug middle class to me)
A Real Pain (seems to be interesting)
Nosferatu (sexy and/or scary)

 

[Orang Utan]

My opinion wasn’t the majority one, but I did not rate A Real Pain at all. Thought it was appallingly glib and unsure of itself at the same time, andnot as charming as it thinks it is, despite Rory Culkin’s evident skill at playing glib fuckups.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Another one for Nosferatu.

I liked it but it was strange to watch it right after watching the original the night before.

This one really is smooshing the original together with the Coppela Dracula.

I really enjoyed it but I felt like I wanted more of the original in it. The nods towards it were great but played more as background elements.
The did some fun cinematography but the stark shadows on the wall of the original left more of an impression than the soft shadows of the new one.

The guy playing Knock was great. 11 bird heads out of ten.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Nickel Boys

A young man in segregated Florida at the start of the 60s looks forward to starting college and joining the civil rights movement, but bad luck and racism put him in reform school, also segregated, of course.

Told from the first person pov first of the one boy, then of his friend in reform school, the story is fractured and cuts between real historical footage, footage that looks like historical footage and may or may not be, and footage from the future where a man is looking up the historical atrocities at the school.

Based on a Colson Whitehead novel, the film portrays segregationist America from the black point of view with the progress of the Apollo program in the (distant) background, echoes of Gil Scott-Heron as well as reflecting one of the young boy's dreams.

Rather than containing twists, rather, it contains one slow corner as you gradually realise what is going to happen.

Chillingly restrained, it's a very fine piece of work.

 

[Sue]

Nickel Boys

A young man in segregated Florida at the start of the 60s looks forward to starting college and joining the civil rights movement, but bad luck and racism put him in reform school, also segregated, of course.

Told from the first person pov first of the one boy, then of his friend in reform school, the story is fractured and cuts between real historical footage, footage that looks like historical footage and may or may not be, and footage from the future where a man is looking up the historical atrocities at the school.

Based on a Colson Whitehead novel, the film portrays segregationist America from the black point of view with the progress of the Apollo program in the (distant) background, echoes of Gil Scott-Heron as well as reflecting one of the young boy's dreams.

Rather than containing twists, rather, it contains one slow corner as you gradually realise what is going to happen.

Chillingly restrained, it's a very fine piece of work.

I just saw this too and I'm a bit meh about it. Really didn't feel like anything I hadn't seen before and while redeemed a little bit by the twist at the end, that wasn't massively novel either (It's not very long since I saw the Count of Monte Cristo) though it did explain the whole filming from a single POV at any one time thing which I must admit I really didn't like.

It was also -- as is the way of things these days -- too long at 2 hours 20 mins.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I found the single POV a bit disconcerting at the start but I liked it overall. I liked the way the director played with it. The girl pulling herself under him in the bus, for instance, and the way we catch a glimpse of him in the photo booth. It's a bit 'Peep Show' at times - come one, gimme a hug - but I can forgive the odd clumsiness.

I liked the way it was fractured. Felt like it was done with a storytelling purpose rather than as a gimmick. And I thought it captured the mundanity of repression in segregationist USA very well without turning people into stereotypical victims.

I also thought it was a little too long, but it just about held me to the end.

 

[Augie March]

Nosferatu as well. Great film, made even better by the few people who couldn't hack it and left halfway through.

 

[RubyToogood]

Conclave. It was good. Slightly ridiculous outcome. Some great visual shots. Makes office politics look like a walk in the park.

Vestibular rating for people sensitive to visual movement ie me, 0 dizzy stars out of 5 as it's mostly people having static conversations with no car chases or whacky moving camera angles.

 

[metalguru]

Babygirl

The idea of Nicole Kidman in an erotic thriller seems to have attracted interest - the cinema was packed out in a way I haven't seen for months. It's a glossy film, with a Verhoeven sheen to the film, and Nicole Kidman is watchable. Unfortunately the film itself is fairly ridiculous or even boring and it doesn't manage to have the shock value of some of the erotic thrillers of the 80s or 90s.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I am eagerly awaiting No Direction Home.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Babygirl

The idea of Nicole Kidman in an erotic thriller seems to have attracted interest - the cinema was packed out in a way I haven't seen for months. It's a glossy film, with a Verhoeven sheen to the film, and Nicole Kidman is watchable. Unfortunately the film itself is fairly ridiculous or even boring and it doesn't manage to have the shock value of some of the erotic thrillers of the 80s or 90s.

Hmm. That's the MubiGo pick this week. I wasn't inspired by the trailer and this doesn't inspire me either.