cooperterle

cooperterle

Favorite films

  • 8½
  • Solaris
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Crash

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  • Repulsion

    ★★★★

  • Spring Breakers

    ★★★★

  • No Country for Old Men

    ★★★★½

  • Novocaine

    ★★½

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  • Spring Breakers

    Spring Breakers

    ★★★★

    Presents such a unique mood: entrancing but uncomfortable, beautiful but grotesque, fun but cringy.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    It’s a shame because I was really interested in the concept of expendables/multiples (including the social commentary and the ensuing drama), but the film pulls more focus onto the well-worn satire of the authoritarian ruler and human superiority over aliens whose intelligence is misunderstood.

    It moves many directions but never provides a good pay-off in any of them.

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  • Small Things Like These

    Small Things Like These

    ★★★

    Found the childhood flashbacks somewhat disconnected from the main arch of the film. Cillian is great as always, but his star power is almost distracting and the film focuses more on his generosity than the actual atrocities of the institutions.

    If there’s a reason to watch, it’s for Emily Watson’s uneasy and chilling performance as an evil nun. Otherwise, just inform yourself separately on the horrors of these asylums in Ireland.  

    Note: I watched this in Dublin with an Irish audience, which certainly added a heightened sense of emotion to the viewing.

  • The Bikeriders

    The Bikeriders

    ★★★

    Middle of the road