Glazing Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN
Jacob Elordi gives nothing short of a mesmerizing performance * this review is spoiler free, though it mentions a lot about Frankenstein in all its forms* Sometimes a movie is good because it is innovative, either within narrative, craft or form, it functions in a way never before done. Sometimes the flowers a film receives come because it gives us some new perspective, maybe even falling into that award season trap of “importance,” causing the praise to then flow forth of necessity. Even further some films are good seemingly simply because they can’t help it, an occurrence usually thanks to some alchemy of both previous considerations, a mixture of theme, creator and function that proves too intoxicating, too “great,” to receive anything but the utmost respect. Within all of these, rather invented, designations, there are then even further those pictures which are great for some ethereal quality within their frames, one almost difficult to name or place. Films where the greatnes...