Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Nightbitch 2024

  ★★ Watched 13 Jan 2025

  this is a movie you find in 100 parts on tiktok at 3am with chinese subtitles and that weird narrator voice

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  Dallas Buyers Club 2013

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Dec 2024

  jared leto jumpscare once again

Popular reviews

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  Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning 2023

  ★★½ Watched 20 Dec 2023

  This documentary sadly didn't deliver what I had hoped for. I liked the visuals (although sometimes reminiscent of a Zara photoshoot) and the archival footage, but content wise, it just lacked substance. 

  I desperately wanted to know more about the protagonists who were interviewed, but their time always felt cut short, perhaps due to the strange pacing.
  Most of the people shown, who I originally thought were going to be the focus of the documentary, were essentially just used as…

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  The Zone of Interest 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Feb 2024

  Claude Lanzmann argumentierte, dass die direkte Darstellung der Gewalt in Vernichtungslagern dazu führt, sie zu verharmlosen, da es schwierig ist, ihre Grausamkeit angemessen über dieses Medium zu vermitteln. Kertesz' Argument für Life is Beautiful war im Wesentlichen ähnlich: Er betonte, dass die Realität nicht durch düsteres Moralisieren, sondern durch den Einsatz von Kitsch erfasst werden könne.
  Ob Glazer dies gelingt, ist eine andere Frage, aber ähnlich wie bei Son of Saul scheint es, als würden viele Leute gerne diese Jahrzehnte alte…