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  Anora 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Rags to Riches to Rag

  Anora (2024) #Jenks079
  
  Post-awards season & sweep at the Oscars, I finally caught Anora in theatres. Directed by Sean Baker- filmmaker behind The Florida Project (2017), Tangerine (2015), Red Rocket (2021)- this film holds reputation of anchoring as Baker’s breakout with a commercial appeal, albeit it’s divisive crowd pull. On one half caters movie-goers who praises bold provocative ideas, the other half second guessing it’s premise. A valid concern whether narrative concepts as such can manage to…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Succumb to The Source Material

  Nosferatu (2024) #Jenks078

  High anticipation going into Nosferatu for me. For the pure love of Robert Eggers’s craft. A Director known for his precision & dedication to meticulously pick out details in the making of his previous works: The VVitch, The Northman, The Lighthouse (in the order of which i’ve liked the most)- I really wanted to include Nosferatu in the Gold-Pot ranking for Eggers, but i’m displeased I can’t.

  For an iteration of the classic Gothic Romance Horror…

Popular reviews

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Oct 2023

  Our Blankets Makes Us the Warmest of Targets.

  Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) #Jenks038
  
  Scorsese on the big screen, an untouchable master at work proven by his long list of iconic filmography- spanning from Goodfellas to The Wolf of Wall Street to Shutter Island to Taxi Driver. To think in this day & age- we still get the same Martin Scorsese & Thelma Schoonmaker working on a film together is near mind-boggling.  Notice the films I mentioned above and why so- they…

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  The Lobster 2015

  ★★★ Watched 23 Feb 2024

  Colin Farrell & His Familiar Donkey.

  The Lobster (2015) #Jenks052

  A prior recurrent film viewer me would HATE the sh*t out of something like The Lobster. I’d assume it’s bland, boring and meaningless. That’s a extremely jarring set of sentence for the review- P.S. just like Yorgos Lanthimos’s films. Perhaps, that is a perfect starting point. But don’t get me wrong, this film was good. I’d say i have two requirements of going to the movies to walk out contented.

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