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Favorite films

  • Wings of Desire
  • Columbus
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • The American Friend

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  • Kneecap

  • The Lives of Others

    ★★½

  • The Conversation

  • Sing Sing

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  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★★

    People are going to think this is just a dad movie for the next decade. Then, the AI model of Bill Simmons is going to have people rightly turned on to the fact that this was the last good movie of its kind. Clint’s dropping the politics to ask us some important questions on his way out the door — I hope as many people as possible see and fully engage with it.

  • The Triplets of Belleville

    The Triplets of Belleville

    Justice for Bruno!

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  • La Cocina

    La Cocina

    ★★½

    Berlinale 74 #2

    The Bear Meets Birdman Told in the Key of Triangle of Sadness, but not in a good way.


    It’s an overstuffed spaghetti pot filled with a boatload of unrelated visuals and thematic devices thrown angrily against the wall — or over the filmmakers own head. T

    As if anticipating the need to defend his film’s existence, the filmmaker has one the cooks read the line: “You asked me for a Dream, it’s not my fault it’s a nightmare,”  shortly…

  • Superpower

    Superpower

    ★★

    I‘m almost afraid to say it …

    “Superpower” is too interested in itself to capture the magnitude of the moment it stumbled into.

    Penn spends the movie emphatically telling its audience to pay attention, to not look away and understand what’s at stake. But the film is at its most captivating in the rare moments Penn isn’t in frame. 

    It functions well enough as a “Ukraine Invasion for Dummies.” Perhaps American audiences will walk away with a greater appreciation for the…

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