Favorite films

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  Le Gai Savoir 1969

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jul 2020

  Godard may be written off as pretentious for many, but with this he downplays his role as an artist, admitting that no single piece of art can provoke any kind of real change or revolution.

  This is an often irritating and challenging film, but I can't bring myself to disagree with its assertion that our way of looking at the world must be constantly questioned, criticised and changed. The old systems must be rethought and replaced, a goal which can only be achieved through a radical redevelopment of the education systems which we count on to teach each new generation.

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  Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District 1956

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Feb 2020

  This film to me feels almost like a ghost story at times because of the way that the film presents characters who have been left behind in this location that is neither wholly traditional or modern, as well as the way that it presents those who have chosen to leave in search of something else.

  The weight of the people who have left hangs over the lives of the people in this place. Through the location of the bar where…

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  To be completely honest, it's kinda miraculous that this exists and holds together as well as it does in the studio era we're in right now.

  It's messy to a certain extent for sure and some aspects of it may not completely work for me (I'm looking at certain performance choices which don't involve Robert Pattinson), but if you told me the director of Barking Dogs Never Bite was gonna be given a sci-fi budget and a wide-release from Warner…

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  Oldboy 2003

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Jan 2025

  Watched on mute.

Popular reviews

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  Dangal 2016

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Nov 2020 1

  Girls be happy your father is controlling and using you to live out his dreams, rather than marrying you off: The Movie.

  I really wish Bollywood movies would actually interrogate gender and class relations in a nuanced way which isn't just this oppression leads to a better life than that oppression.

  Wrestling scenes kinda slap tho

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  Tony Manero 2008

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 May 2020 2

  I'll elaborate on this later, but Pablo Larraín does everything right with Tony Manero that Todd Phillips did wrong with Joker.

  There's no posturing here, only a raw and brutal portrait of a lack of identity which is forged through the dream of being someone else, resulting in a cold alienated existence. I'm also not going to pretend to have a firm grasp on Chilean history, but the period detailing of this film seems far more lived in and honest than the superficial presentation of an American city from the 80s that Joker gave.