arijmoore

arijmoore

Favorite films

  • Y Tu Mamá También
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Before Sunset
  • Crazy Rich Asians

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

  • Pushing Hands

    ★★★★

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    ★★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    Sci-fi continues to not be my thing! Good filmmaker though, that Bong Joon-ho

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★½

    Watched on an airplane. There should have been a content warning about how much second hand embarrassment I was gonna feel at Benji and David's brilliantly acted dynamic. Wowza, hard to watch.
    Also, about that scene at their grandma's house, something doesn't sit right with me about what happened. Considering the person that lives there now is an old woman, it wouldn't surprise me if the current tenant moved in right after their grandma was taken to the camps. After…

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    So many themes, I'm not sure I was able to fully chew on any of them, but that's ok because I was dazzled by the music and cinematography, and the writing and performances and story, also.

    Cynical post-Holocaust 20th-century European Jewish intellectual is my favorite genre. And Brady Corbet is Brian from Mysterious Skin? Sick!

  • Monkey Man

    Monkey Man

    ★★★★★

    Ok maybe I just haven't seen an action movie in an actual movie theater since I don't know when, but this movie did everything for me.
    Fuck Modi, long live Monkey Man.
    And the soundtrack?? Come onnn

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