Favorite films

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  Thief 1981

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Apr 2022

  Try as you might, you can’t escape the eternal shackles of incarceration. This is a fact that Michael Mann knows well and delivers through his feature film Thief. Frank, played by James Caan, desperately seeks normalcy, or at least that’s what he tells himself. He pictures the “storybook” life: beautiful house that is home to his gorgeous wife and kids. An escape from the grim reality that he has been living since he was incarcerated 15 years ago. As the…

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  C'mon C'mon 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Jan 2022

  You can’t get away from it, the idea that what we do is meaningless, the feeling of emptiness that is rooted within human existence. And for people young and old, it’s a problem we have struggled to wrangle with, especially in today’s age with global viruses, a dying planet, frustrating politics, etc. that only increasing this bleak feeling. thats where the beauty of this film lies. It serves many purposes but one that I found to be especially prevalent is…

Recent reviews

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  One of Them Days 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  very funny! pleasantly surprised, keke palmer is a gem. her and sza had such chemistry, the banter was great and felt completely unscripted. liked the aesthetics, the music choice was good, just a very fun movie

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  timmy was great and felt like brought an air of freshness to the biopic genre. i don’t think this will be a movie anyone remembers in 10 years but they may remember his performance. enjoyed it a lot more than i thought. the music was fantastic (as expected)!

Popular reviews

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  Taste of Cherry 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Nov 2022

  the mulberry story was one of the best bits of dialogue i’ve ever seen in a film. extremely touching, while there was one person talking, Badii’s silence spoke loudly. this is an emotional movie, absolutely chalked full of metaphors that I don’t believe Id be able to properly summarize. acting was really good. the man who played Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) was able to convey all these heavy emotions without all that many lines. all that being said, it’s a tough…

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  Paths of Glory 1957

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Apr 2022 2

  one of the all-time classic film representations of war, this is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. everyone knows the quote from françois truffuat where he says that “there’s no such thing as an anti-war film” due to all films that depict war being intrinsically appealing to the audience through combat and patriotism. however, some films are able to present an audience with a view that encompasses the true brutality of war. Paths of Glory captures the impersonal…