Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Daisies 1966

  Watched 27 May 2023

  watched this with italian subtitles but I think i understood more that way

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  Beau Is Afraid 2023

  ★★★ Watched 29 Apr 2023

  Writing this at 4 am after a quick night out and an alright kebab with surprisingly fresh greens.

  Definitely found myself being frustrated with the film rather than enjoying it. Ari (we are close friends) has made a film without a single real character in it, perhaps, except Beau himself. The opening sequence threads the line between comedic perfection and horrific exaggeration, and if it wasn't for the film's continuous anti-humanist commitment, I would put the first 40 min of…

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★ Watched 30 Sep 2022 1

  ehhh nooo.... maybe if you're into hyperpop 👍

  
  longer review:
  incredibly exhausting movie to watch, 'clever' writing in that the nonsensical stuff of the first part of the movie gets neatly tied up and explained away at the end of the movie, creating a seemingly tight plot with tight writing, but results instead in something so shallow you could barely wet your feet in it. why have anything below the surface when you have a thousand things dancing on top…

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  The Northman 2022

  ★★★ Watched 28 Apr 2022 1

  When the smoke-infused lava pools of a giant volcano houses the final duel, ending with a chest-piercing stab and a one-blow decapitation in perfect unison, and the film still seems like a bore, clearly something has gone wrong.

  Perhaps it's my disinterest towards vikings; perhaps it's Alexander Skarsgård's inability to show more than one emotion; perhaps it's the film's attempt at being a mythos-based epic, a revenge-fueled action, a psychological horror with bits of ritualistic gore, AND have an inorganic…