Nosferatu (1922)

I finally watched this classic!

And as far as silent films go, it's perfectly creepy, atmospheric and 'scary'. Not for a moment does Count Orlok look enticing or charming, as future generations of Count Draculas do. Everything from his appearance, to his words, to his behaviour, shows him to be the blood-thirsty fiend that he is. Everyone else is also overly dramatic and extreme, just as you would expect from a 1920s silent film.

Worth a watch for all film lovers.

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

One of my favourite genres - noir - delivered charmlessly.

A wonderful cast - Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe - wasted.

The opportunity to deliver an offbeat gem - thwarted.

This is a fairly forgettable modern noir, a mystery that keeps getting more and more complicated, while the main characters keep getting less and less interesting.

21 Bridges (2019)

There is nothing here that has not been seen before in multitudes of American cop dramas.

A robbery gone wrong, a criminal stuck in a deal much larger than anticipated, a cop with a conscience, institutional corruption, conspiracies galore, etc.

And yet, the film is oddly gripping and entertaining, and not a bad specimen of its genre.

Chadwick Boseman, JK Simmons and Sienna Miller, all deliver decent performances and the film is perfectly average.