Connor

Connor

Favorite films

  • The Double Life of Véronique
  • Aftersun
  • Memories of Murder
  • Nostalgia

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  • Red Rooms

    ★★★★★

  • The Promised Land

    ★★★★½

  • The Straight Story

    ★★★★★

  • Black Box Diaries

    ★★★★★

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  • Red Rooms

    Red Rooms

    ★★★★★

    American Psycho but Patrick Bateman is a Femcel and is obsessed with online poker. This is one of those films that doesn't really fully open up in your mind until after the credits roll. So much of this is a puzzle that has no correct end formation, there's so many different ways to interpret what this film shows you and it maintains this vague murkiness that made it's final act all the more compelling for me. I can easily see…

  • The Promised Land

    The Promised Land

    ★★★★½

    A brillaint piece of historical fiction with a plot and story so rich with detail and excitement. This film packs so much into its runtime and manages to have this intricate conversation about class struggle, about corruption within an imbalanced and unjust system of governance, and the struggle to maintain ones dignity while working against seemingly insurmountable forces that want to debase and humiliate you at every turn. It addresses all these things effortlessly and really without addressing them at…

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

    Stunning in every way, not a single moment or corner of a frame is wasted. Can't put into words how much this film moved me

  • Cure

    Cure

    ★★★★★

    A searing, sinister cinematic study of the subtle power of suggestion. Subtlety is the key component in this films equation. Where other filmmakers would opt for bombastic explosions of horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa instead gives us quiet, ever increasing dread.

    The film seems to be centered around the idea of control, and just how little of it we have. That's what makes the final scenes of this film so eerie, so haunting.

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