DA Yirgou

DA Yirgou

Favorite films

  • Paper Moon
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Mrs. Doubtfire

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  • The Electric State

    ½

  • Michael Clayton

    ★★★★½

  • Niagara

    ★★

  • Past Lives

    ★★★★★

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ½

    one of the worst ideas met with disaster-level acting and directing. Unreal levels of AI dogshit

  • Michael Clayton

    Michael Clayton

    ★★★★½

    “Let me take a picture. you are so fucked.”


    Banger

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  • Civil War

    Civil War

    ★★★

    I wonder why Garland refuses to love his characters.

    Throughout his filmography, you get mannequins confronted by giant concept. With sci-fi or horror you can cut corners from their emotional depth to service a narrative, but from a cultural socio-political tragedy...? It feels like a grenade lobbed with a dud.

    There's no background to their past lives behind this moment; no sense of families torn apart by politic, religious upbringing, or from what circumstance a reporter is born from. Each…

  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★★

    Have you ever taken a sledgehammer to the temple? Have you ever watched your coworker’s water birth art directed by Alexander Wang? Do you want to? THE SUBSTANCE is incomparable to anything really… Cronenburg might be a place to start, sure— but this is so much more fun and angry, like being trapped in Temple Grandin’s Hug Machine if it was made with misaligned body parts and nightmare sludge. When you think it can’t go further- it says fuck you…

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