Izaak

Izaak

fix your hearts or die

Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • Before Sunrise
  • Life Is Beautiful
  • Barry Lyndon

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  • Magazine Dreams

    ★★½

  • Spring Breakers

    ★★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★½

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  • Magazine Dreams

    Magazine Dreams

    ★★½

    Jonathan Majors’ performance is absolutely riveting and powerful. Truly captures the essence of Killian Maddox, his character: a mentally disturbed, mentally challenged body builder dealing with the stress of competition, financial precarity, and caring for his ailing grandfather. His acting made me so squeamish at scenes, so much so that I had to look away.

    That said, Majors is a truly terrible human being and it was difficult to separate his volatile and violent actions in this film from his…

  • Spring Breakers

    Spring Breakers

    ★★★★

    Before Brat Summer, we had Spring Breakers.

    More than a decade later, it feels less like satire and more like prophecy. Harmony Korine saw where we were headed: a United States where the American Dream™ is just machine guns and designer clothes, at the expense of everyone around you.

    The girls treat crime like a study-abroad program, indulging in violence to escape the ennui of their privileged lives. The scene where they tune out during a lecture on the Double V…

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★

    Still amazes me how well Soderbergh can float between film genres.

    Fun and sexy spy movie. Perfect run time. Not a second wasted.

    This felt like it would’ve been a spy drama made in the early 00s.

    Loved the musical score, Massive Attack and Portishead vibes.

    Edit: just remembered how gorgeous that opening long take was

  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ½

    dollar store Almodóvar. I feel gross even comparing it to Almodóvar’s oeuvre.

    is this gonna be Gen Z’s Crash? Why is this getting so much Oscar buzz? It is straight up trash.

    Insensitive to trans people and their experiences, surface-level representation of Mexican culture. Plays in all the stereotypes imaginable.

    The surgery song is going to haunt my mind forever. All these songs feel like they are AI-generated.

    what a waste of 2 hours.