Nosferatu (2024)
First screened in December 2024
Director: Robert Eggers. Cast: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Simon McBurney, Ralph Ineson. Screenplay: Robert Eggers (inspired by the screenplay for 1922's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror by Henrik Galeen, itself based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker).

   
Photo © 2024 Focus Features / Maiden Voyage Pictures
In Brief: Script a grab-bag of nonsense. Depp gives the only solid performance. Even expensive designs are ill-served by lighting.

VOR:   Eggers still seems like a storyboardist first, a director second. Images abut one another, rather than mutually infect—bad for a vampire flick.

Grade: C–


Awards:
Chicago Film Critics Association: Best Art Direction/Production Design (Craig Lathrop)
National Board of Review: Best Cinematography (Jarin Blaschke)

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