Ash Ponders

Ash Ponders Pro

So many people contribute so much of their lives to a film, it is tragedy when movies are bad.

Favorite films

  • Nights of Cabiria
  • The Dig - You And I and You
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • Tampopo

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  • Frosty Man and the BMX Kid

    ★★½

  • Conclave

    ★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★½

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  • Frosty Man and the BMX Kid

    Frosty Man and the BMX Kid

    ★★½

    Ice cream

  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★½

    This is what Dan Brown novels wish they were: in terms of drama, craft and pulp.

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★★

    A film that requires the viewer to already have—though perhaps not necessarily articulated—some specific feelings and key moments in their own life. Without those, I doubt very much that this film can resonate fully.

    It's not the inert viewer's fault that they aren't moved, but I still pity them.

  • Unrest

    Unrest

    ★★★½

    Anarchists consider a film more so than filmmakers consider anarchism.

    A series of baffling choices that I, and indeed probably everyone, would not willingly make—but maybe that's the fun of it. Honestly, while I spent much of the film questioning the techniques, I was charmed by the conceits. Fun.