gloryboy

gloryboy

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  • Roma
  • Ikiru
  • Under the Skin
  • Red Desert

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  • Hard Truths

    Hard Truths

    Ok so I flopped and didn't write a review for this right after I saw it, so my feelings aren't quite as palpable now as they were in that moment 3 weeks ago. However, the Oscars have passed and Mikey Madison won best actress and I had to come to terms with the idea that the best actress of the year, Marianne Jean-baptiste was brutally snubbed - albeit there are only so few spots and this didn't have the same…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    Floored by this experience. A 1/1 film that could play like a 70s/90s/2020s depending on the segment. Characters and performances are so immersive, emphasis on Guy Pearce’s Van Muren character. For Toth, I felt every ounce of his sorrow and frustration. The montage editing is so seamless in this that i probably felt the run time less on this movie than I have with some 2 hour movies. The recent 3+ hr movies (killers of the flower moon and oppenheimer)…

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  • Ikiru

    Ikiru

    ★★★★★

    Seeing this in a theater with an invested audience was so heartwarming. The laughs that this got just had me taken aback and overwhelmed by a richness that you realize the film has with an audience around. I find it such a time capsule of the old world that blends so well with a modern life that we are accustomed to. It’s quite scary too because that really shows the darker side of the sword where the bureaucratic systems have plagued…

  • Videodrome

    Videodrome

    technological paranoia is the name videodrome is the game