Friday reviews: 17 November 2023

Saltburn, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Five Nights at Freddy’s are in cinemas, The Killer is on Netflix

I saw two films in cinemas yesterday and only one of them was a serious film – and it’s probably not the one you are thinking of.

First, a thought or two about aspect ratios. I named this newsletter Funerals & Snakes after a comment by veteran Fritz Lang in Godard’s Contempt where he said that widescreen cinema was “only good for funerals and snakes”. It…