Favorite films

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 28 Mar 2025

  BRILLIANT in a way beyond comprehension.
  NO ONE can explore a theme like marty, especially w/o spoonfeeding you the morality

  BREATHTAKING images, PHENOMENAL score, GREATEST acting — but too long!

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  Circus Person 2020

  Watched 26 Mar 2025

  ok helly r, you are quite a great director but the writing needs some work. feels inspired by wes anderson a little? 

  to me, this is the companion piece to Past Lives & Challengers as the pov of the white guy/art/celine & justin’s third

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Jan 2025 1

  wow, those 4 hours truly felt like 1.5 max. epic, epic film. genuinely confused at how people like the first half more, esp after my 2nd watch! for me, there were a few things amiss until the second half of part two (when they get to new york) & then i was hooked till the very last image and sound. 

  the cinematography & writing is at the highest caliber, but still feels contrived at times - esp in the first half & esp…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 26 Jan 2025 1

  Pain is always felt in ways we can see & understand, and ways that are beyond our grasp. The Brutalist takes that latter intangible part of pain and makes it so profoundly tangible, palpable, and powerful for the audience. It is such a visceral feeling to know you are experiencing pain that will weigh down your soul for long after the pain itself has left your life; Corbet encapsulates that perfectly. 

  This really is the peak of form meeting content bc…