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augustussy

Favorite films

  • A Woman Under the Influence
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Tokyo Story
  • Total Recall

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  • Interstellar

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★★

  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    ★★★★★

  • Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy

    ★★★★

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  • Interstellar

    Interstellar

    ★★★★

    There’s a lot to criticize here. The weird fetishism towards rural Americana, the fact that Nolan can’t really write women, the fact that space colonization as a concept is never questioned. But at the end of the day, this is an extremely beautiful and well-researched movie. The theme of love is naive and sentimental, but ultimately the movie is about how we need sentimentality to survive

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★★

    This does such a good job of depicting capitalist alienation. Not only is there a price tag on Mickey’s life; his life is only valuable because it’s expendable. The fact that his purpose is to die means that by definition he will never ever benefit from his own labor. He is a human being dedicated only to work. An excellent detail is that we don’t find out that each Mickey has a unique personality until 17 survives instead of dying.…

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  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    ½

    Ryan Reynolds is to cinema what Osama bin Laden was to towers. This movie is the opposite of art. They try to play it off as like a heartfelt send-off to the Fox characters but it doesn’t work at all. To be heartfelt you need to be sincere, and this is the most insincere movie I’ve ever seen. Nothing happens without a character looking directly at the camera and doing the “well THAT just happened” bit. It wants to have…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★

    I’m pretty torn on this. On the one hand, the cinematography and performances are all top-notch, and you genuinely don’t feel the runtime. But it never really coalesces into anything meaningful. There’s a scene early on where a radio announces the creation of Israel while Laszlo is in his workshop, which creates an implied parallel between the work of building an ethnostate and constructing architecture, but nothing ever comes of that. In fact, the movie never really has anything to…

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