Estevan Valdes

Estevan Valdes Pro

Favorite films

  • Akira
  • The Godfather
  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • The Elephant Man

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  • The Rock-afire Explosion

    ★★★½

  • Bang the Drum Slowly

    ★★★★

  • Megalopolis

    ★★★★

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

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  • The Rock-afire Explosion

    The Rock-afire Explosion

    ★★★½

    A decent doc about the resilience of three different people brought together by their shared love and connection to an animatronic pizza place band left long forgotten by the cultural zeitgeist. 

    Heartwarming to say the least.

  • Bang the Drum Slowly

    Bang the Drum Slowly

    ★★★★

    One of the all time sports movies I’ve ever seen. Up there with Moneyball and Field of Dreams for baseball films in my opinion. What I love about this film is that it doesn’t romanticize baseball. Everything is played in such a matter-of-fact way and shows professional baseball in its most grounded form. For them it’s work and they are just guys doing their job.

    Featuring a young Robert De Niro as simple minded Pearson dying of Hodgkin, the film…

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  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ½

    Forgot to log this even tho it’s been months since I’ve seen it that should tell you something. Honestly what a hollow movie that has themes but no guts to actually dive into them. Emerald why do you break my heart? Like someone I know said, instagramification of cinema. 

    P.S. Barry Keoghan should not be allowed to workshop ideas for a scene or give input ever again.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★½

    Something about Egger’s almost tyrannical need to be faithful to the period and source material is in a weird way refreshing. I thought him bringing back the sexually charged themes from the novel were done exquisitely well and Lilly Rose Depp gives a performance so perfect. Everyone’s acting honestly was on point especially The unrecognizable Bill Skarsgard who delivered what I feel was a career best as if I didn’t know he was playing Count Orlok I’d never had known. …