Michael 🌹 Doyle

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I rate things highly because I only watch good movies.
My favorites are my last four first watch 5/5s.

Favorite films

  • Top Secret!
  • Anora
  • Hundreds of Beavers
  • Dune: Part Two

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  • Anora

    ★★★★★

  • Stavros Halkias: Live at the Lodge Room

    ★★★★

  • Stavros Halkias: Fat Rascal

    ★★★

  • Akaash Singh: GASLIT

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  • Thirst

    Thirst

    ★★★★½

    A great look into mutually abusive relationships and how Eros prevents us from letting go and escaping them. The cycle of pain that comes with being inside these relationships where you hurt the other person, you hurt yourself, and you hurt others in an attempt to squeeze real love out of it. Causing suffering to get those moments of sympathy, apology, and tenderness that come after. Often times, reviving the relationship back from the dead so that you don't have…

  • The Worst Person in the World

    The Worst Person in the World

    ★★★★★

    Trying to say that any single thing was the point of this movie feels reductive. It captures so well this feeling of simultaneous desire for "something more" and regret about not achieving it and the deep-seated fear of committing to anything serious enough that might remedy that. But it does it in a way that feels so natural, so lived-in and believable that it doesn't just end up being about that rock and that hard-place. It so beautifully realizes the…

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★★

    Yeah this should have won. So much fun, so many distinct and memorable characters

  • Stavros Halkias: Live at the Lodge Room

    Stavros Halkias: Live at the Lodge Room

    ★★★★

    Get it you big beautiful Greek demigod

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  • The Northman

    The Northman

    ★★★★★

    I couldn't have asked for a better viking-age movie. Gorgeous, dark, spiritual, brutal, poetic, ethereal, prophetic. I want to "live" in this universe but I don't want to live in this universe.

  • Stane

    Stane

    ★★★½

    I love how much exposition there is purely through glances and glares