Nosferatu noted

I watched last year's update of Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers, on Netflix over the weekend.

It looks absolutely fantastic - the atmospheric cinematography, the sets, and even the elaborate wardrobe (especially of the female leads); as well a noticeably "painterly" framing of scenes that reminded me quite a bit of Barry Lyndon.   It is definitely worth watching for these features.

I guess I do have to say, though, that it continues the Eggers oeuvre of putting a huge amount of effort into atmosphere and unique creepy environments, but not so much into story resolution.

I wondered, too, with the appearance of plague rats with the arrival of the Count, whether a better story could be made by the whole story being shown to be a fever dream of someone dying of said disease, so that the vampire becomes just an imagined metaphor for it.  (I see that the movie is true to the old silent film of the same name, which I haven't seen.  Also, Dracula in Bram Stoker's book is apparently more of a generic plague metaphor.)

Anyhow, I enjoyed well enough and would recommend viewing.  Unless you're emotionally attached to pigeons.  :)