CharmeIeon

CharmeIeon

Favorite films

  • The Holy Mountain
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Casablanca
  • The Act of Killing

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  • Uncut Gems

    ★★★★★

  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

    ★★★★★

  • Downfall

    ★★★★

  • The Platform

    ★½

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  • The Platform

    The Platform

    ★½

    remember reading an old greentext on /x/ with a similar premise, and there was more ingenuity and incisive commentary in the first 3 lines than in 94 minutes of this.

  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★½

    Much has been said of this film's final "twist." Praise for its progressivism has been matched in fervor by claims that mirroring the previous Big Reveals of sleazy personal details communicates an offensive equivalence. I, for one, am rather ambivalent towards what this ending is trying to say about The Church and The World, and find the commentariat's focus on the political—here, and in discussion of the film as a whole—to detract from the more interesting implications for Cardinal Lawrence's…

  • A Different Man

    A Different Man

    ★★★★★

    this is exactly what it's like to transition if you kinda suck and don't have the sauce.

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