Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Breaking the Waves 1996

  ★★½ Watched 05 Jan 2025

  obsessively morbid

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  Another Round 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Nov 2024

  takes a silly premise and builds a painfully real portrait of mid life existential crisis. loved it.

Popular reviews

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  Holy Spider 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jun 2024

  The Iranians really know how to make a movie.

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  Close-Up 1990

  ★★★★½ Watched 02 Aug 2024

  I had profound feelings of sonder throughout this movie: I see Soznain as almost an ideal victim of his circumstances, perhaps as the movie intended. I loved the somewhat contrasting situations Mahrdad and Soznain find themselves in, even though both are interested in art.

  This movie is terrifying reminder of how much suffering exists in this universe, and how little of it is acknowledged. It's the sort of movie that can cause Marxist awakenings, if there is such a thing.

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