Ardio

Ardio

Favorite films

  • At Eternity's Gate
  • Whiplash
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • Paperman

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★★

  • Ibong Adarna

    ★★½

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★½

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    (Note: This is a fresh review coming straight out of seeing The Brutalist in theaters. I intend to do another review at some point, but I believe the film left such an indelible mark on me that I believe it pertinent to write a review.)

    What I often enjoy about immigrant narratives isn't simply the fact that I - myself, a former immigrant - relate to these stories, but how they question identity. It seems that, from the start, The…

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★★★

    conversation i heard:
    some dude: what was that movie?
    their friend: ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

    agreed guy, agreed.

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    ★★★★½

    Slow, methodical and exploratory, Scorsese releases yet another beautiful film that calls for a more spiritual and introspective lens to dive deeper into the world he asks us to inhabit, forcing its audience to lose themselves in the swaths of care and tact he feels for the people it represents.

  • The French Connection

    The French Connection

    ★★★★½

    A tour-de-force of location shooting and documentary-like filmmaking, William Friedkin upends the police muth by removing the glamor and revealing the murky depths.