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Favorite films

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • The Sting
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Christine

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  • Vitória

    ★★★½

  • Terror in a Texas Town

    ★★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

  • Wild at Heart

    ★★★★½

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  • Dick Tracy

    Dick Tracy

    ★★★★★

    Dick Tracy just jams that jam, brother. It's what would happen if Angels With Dirty Faces was bitten by a radioactive peacock, and I couldn't love it harder if I tried.

    An endless parade of bombastic splatter color, ostentatious production and razor-sharp hard lights that never stops never stopping. The entire visual spectrum of this film - costumes, sets, lighting, cinematography, makeup, hairstyling - is so intensely and cohesively overdone, so explosively creative, that it actualy ends up becoming larger…

  • My Name Is Nobody

    My Name Is Nobody

    ★★★★★

    A last "Addio!" to the West from Leone, through the hands of his pupil (the very underrated) Tonino Valerii. Despite not directing it, it is clear that his vision was very important to this picture. Not only did the idea for the story come from him, but there is a great usage of the Western iconography he created, and a recreation of his directorial and visual style.

    But, at the same time, it lets it be clear that the days…

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  • Vitória

    Vitória

    ★★★½

    A perfectly serviceable drama with little of exceptional, but which does the raw fundamentals very competently. Really just makes you feel grateful to be watching a legend of the stature of Fernanda Montenegro performing at this stage of her career. And the film knows that all too well, as it gives her the space, time and focus to make her character so endearing. Real A-grade grandma-core material.

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    Not a Bob Dylan biopic, but a Bob Dylan playlist.

    Stands out from the formula of musician movies in the way it is not one bit interested in anything Dylan other than his music. There's barely any cohesion, story, progression. It's a series of vignettes and half-scenes breezly passing by to give way to setpieces of Chalamet covering all his hits up to '65. And that's that. Confidently betting on the nostalgic, rustic folk vibes to carry it through. And,…

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  • The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

    The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

    ★★★

    They had a fish speakeasy, but with music instead of booze. Magnificent.

  • Nope

    Nope

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.