Movies
Sexy Beast is one quirky crime flick, a film that put director Glazer on the map. I really loved it the first time I watched it, revisiting it was still a lot of fun, it just wasn't quite as special as I remembered. It's still an easy recommend for people who never watched the film though, as it's not like anything else you've seen. The deliberate pacing, the polished camera work and the over-the-top characterization are all things that add flair to the film. Take that away, and you get a pretty basic heist flick peppered with some thick British accents. A very fine first feature that betrays Glazer's talent, but it didn't quite have the lasting power I hoped it would.Read all
An interesting setup that gets stuck in its own limitations. This isn't the first film to deal with Auschwitz, but Glazer's approach is relatively novel. Not the idea itself, there have been plenty of films where "not showing" was deemed more impactful. The problem is that Glazer fails to push beyond the film's original concept. The contrast is stark and impressive, and the sound design is efficient, but that's where it kind of ends. It's just a long repetition of the same idea, and it does get pretty repetitive later on. I wish Glazer had a few more tricks up his sleeve because somewhere there's a great film hidden in here. It just never materialized.Read all