Elchsohn

Elchsohn

I think I know something about films, but then again, we're on the internet, where everybody thinks so...

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Toni Erdmann
  • Prince of the City
  • Ex Machina

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  • Nothing to Hide

  • The Power of the Dog

    ★★★★

  • Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor

    ★★★½

  • Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

    ★★★★½

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  • Nothing to Hide

    Nothing to Hide

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

  • The Power of the Dog

    The Power of the Dog

    ★★★★

    The Power of the Dog is a hard, depressing watch. There may be wide shots of beautiful landscapes throughout a film, but more and more they feel like a trap, a claustrophobic trap.

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  • Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord

    Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord

    ★★

    Another entry in Netflix's "mediocre documentary (but hey, we got nice cinematography and graphics" offensive, Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord tries to be an insightful portrait of a narcissistic, smug and way to self-assured teenager selling drugs online, but utterly failing to not fall for him and his games, portraying him as some kind of evil James Bond villain genius, having him replay his crimes and getting him on a boat far out in a lake, regularly intercutting (and thereby…

  • Master Cheng

    Master Cheng

    ★★★½

    I imagine Mika Kaurismäki once went to a Chinese restaurant, talked to the Chef, got drunk, and a few days later, he found himself somewhere in the middle of nowhere in some Finnish woods with no recollection of the past few days, but with the finished script to this film in his hands.

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