Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  So if my dad made me, how did I make that?

  (...)

  How did we make her?

  The same way we made him.

  (...)

  I'm sorry son, I should've done better.

  Episode 4 is a masterpiece.
  This is the only realistic depiction of school in TV and film I've seen so far - the videos, tiktoks, the reckless, rude behaviour of kids, normalising bullying through social media and so on. Everything about the complexity of this series is gut wrenching.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  too shallow. It didn't even go into all the other aspects of beauty and the body image: from psychological factors to the average society (not the privileged and "high" society) and the horrors that come with it. I would have been nice to see how psychological factors play a role in this theme - to feel more claustrophobic, more alienated within one body. I see, that the character is split into two: a naive young part, and a frustrated altered…

Popular reviews

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Added 1

  everytime I think of it it hurts

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2024

  watched at VIENNALE '24
  Jesse Eisenberg's debut film A Real Pain involves topics from grief and acceptance, social classes, family history, courage and collective social ignorance. We turn deaf so we don't have to carry the weight on our shoulders - but we never know what is going on inside of the person next to us. Or what is happening so close to us. A Real Pain showed me for the first time that there are different narratives within one…