Favorite films

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  The Golden Glove 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  One of the bleakest, most sickening films I’ve seen in a while, which is not a criticism. There is a lot of art here, and, at the beginning, even some dark humour. It is an exercise in how much you can imply by keeping something horrifying just off-screen. I’d hesitate to actually recommend it to anyone, but the short pitch would be, what if Haneke made a Kourismäki movie. Not a film to be enjoyed, but to be endured and respected.

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  And, Towards Happy Alleys 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  The second love letter to Iranian film I watched this year, after Universal Language.

Popular reviews

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Apr 2024

  Could easily be called “Digital Minimalism: The Movie”. A quiet, heart-swellingly feel-good movie that nonetheless doesn’t feel like it’s talking down to you. Made with a profound love for Tokyo. Also, those are some very cool toilets. Glad they invited Wenders to come look at them.

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2025 2

  I have an idea in my head of the perfect Robert Eggers film, and unfortunately, he hasn’t made that one yet. In the meantime, he remains to me one of the most fascinating directors in English-language cinema, specifically for his treatment of historical people. Unlike most mainstream film, which consistently looks at the past with an end-of-history liberal lens, Eggers likes the idea that we had something in common with people from the past while also being alien from them.…

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