Arman Badrei

Arman Badrei

Favorite films

  • Cinema Paradiso
  • The Shining
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Interstellar

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  • The Thomas Crown Affair

    ★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • Gladiator II

    ★★★

  • Gladiator II

    ★★★½

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  • The Thomas Crown Affair

    The Thomas Crown Affair

    ★★★★

    Rene Russo easily without questions STEALS this movie. You know what's fun? Playing a guy designed to be the coolest person in the world. You know what's hard? Playing his female mirror image in a way that's not overcompensating or contrived. The psychologist scenes were great (shocked that Thomas would go to therapy, though his version of therapy is pretty combative, with his therapist laughing her ass off in his face). All of the art references are so entertainingly woven into the story--the Dogs Playing Poker fuck you, the Magritte painting heist. Also really makes me want to do that sailing.

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    Going in with post-Oscars expectations, the movie still delivered and has all the components to be a future classic. It's got a big Robert Altman feel to it (thinking about The Long Goodbye, California Split especially), with the naturalism in a gritty setting, the humor, the part-caper/part-drama ratio, and eclectic and memorable side characters: Toros was fantastic dare I say carrying at times, Igor roils for most of the movie, quietly playing our eyes into this world until he cranks…

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  • The Holdovers

    The Holdovers

    ★★★★★

    Best film of the year

  • The French Dispatch

    The French Dispatch

    ★★★½

    Really sacrificed narrative for the sake of the aesthetic, movies a how much do you love Wes Anderson test

    The Tintin-like animation throughout and especially in the third feature was aweeeeesome

    Movie was more like an art gallery of beautiful shots than a cohesive film I could get invested in

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