Nosferatu (2024)
First screened in December 2024

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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).

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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: ②  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–

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Academy Award Nominations:
	Best Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke
	Best Production Design: Craig Lathrop, Beatrice Brentnerova
	Best Costume Design: Linda Muir
	Best Makeup & Hairstyling: David White, Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton
Other Awards:
	Chicago Film Critics Association: Best Art Direction/Production Design (Craig Lathrop)
	National Board of Review: Best Cinematography (Jarin Blaschke)

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