Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  3 Women 1977

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jun 2024

  "do you think they know which ones they are?"

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  The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt 2023

  ★★★½ Rewatched 12 Jan 2024

  vova adidas come to brazil

Popular reviews

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  Napoleon 2023

  ★★ Watched 16 Dec 2023

  i don't like to rate a film through comparison and i quite prefer to evaluate a movie for what it is instead of what it could be -- but when they displayed the monarchist insurrection, i could only think of eisenstein's battleship potemkin; specifically, the scene of the staircase street in odessa. it is not a gratuitous display of violence and tyranny, because it has meaning to it. and that's scott's napoleon greatest flaw: the sheer meaninglessness of almost all…

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  The Sacrifice 1986

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2023

  Foolishness for Christ (Greek: διά Χριστόν σαλότητα, Church Slavonic: оуродъ, юродъ) refers to behavior such as giving up all one's worldly possessions upon joining an ascetic order or religious life, or deliberately flouting society's conventions to serve a religious purpose—particularly of Christianity. Such individuals have historically been known as both "holy fools" and "blessed fools". The term "fool" connotes what is perceived as feeblemindedness, and "blessed" or "holy" refers to innocence in the eyes of God.