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FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo del Toro, 2025)
***+ / *****: Some amazing performances - especially Jacob Elordi’s Wrightson-brought-to-life Creature - and moments of brilliance but overall left me wanting. The Netflix sheen shellacked over Del Toro’s too-conservative / reverent direction of his own script diluted what should have been a cinematic powerhouse into the streaming version of the early 90’s ABC event mini-series iterations of JEKYLL AND HYDE and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (presented with limited commercial interruption); I’m not mad, just disappointed.
THE BRIDE! (trailer)
I’m all in for GDT’S Frankenstein, but I’m more excited for this.