Carlos Magalhães

Carlos Magalhães

Favorite films

  • Once Upon a Time in America
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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  • Watership Down

    ★★★★½

  • Brazilian Holocaust

    ★★★★★

  • Adolescence

    ★★★★

  • Vitória

    ★★½

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  • The Monkey

    The Monkey

    ★★½

    The premise is quintessential Stephen King, and I love the idea of a villain that is completely beyond anyone’s control, and yet while this aims for a gory comedy, the paper-thin result often falls short with many terrible jokes and uninspired, Final Destination-esque deaths.

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  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    ★★½

    More poorly conceived than it deserved to be for a film about grief and acceptance, it struggles to justify most of the conflicts it introduces or the unconvincing ways it tries to resolve them, and sometimes it can be as ridiculous as the dumb sight of Bridget’s swollen lips.

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  • The Handmaiden

    The Handmaiden

    ★★★★½

    Park Chan-Wook explores the power of narrative (the way you tell a story and its ramifications), creating another astounding visual spectacle full of dark humor, sexual desire, betrayal and revenge, with intense performances and a wonderful production design, editing and score.

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  • Us

    Us

    ★★★★½

    If there is anything more terrifying than alien body snatchers, it’s our own dark sides crawling out of our depths to take our places in society, and Peele creates an intelligent allegory replete with symbolism of how today’s ‘US’ is making this red chain of madness all the more possible.

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