Favorite films

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  The Matrix Resurrections 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Jan 2022

  I couldn't have my mom and dad... yet suddenly I had Neo and Trinity, arguably the two most important characters in my life. It was immediately comforting to have these two characters alive again, and it's super-simple. You can look at it and say: "Okay, these two people die, and okay, bring these two people back to life, and oh, doesn't that feel good?" Yeah, it did! It's simple, and this is what art does and this is what stories…

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  Fallen Angels 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2021

  There’s this thing that happens to me when I’m reading a really good book, where I start hearing the author’s voice in my head as I go about my life, like my brain is trying to inhabit the author’s world and describe my experience through their eyes.
  Wong Kar-wai is one of the few directors that has a similar effect on me: this movie gave me an afterglow where the blues felt blue-er and the greens greener, the rain felt rainy-er and the pineapples more pineapple-y. 
  Every time I get close to something I feel like I’m in a wide-angle lens

Recent reviews

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  Watched 26 Dec 2024 1

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  Money 1985

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Sep 2023

  This and other Henry Hill movies are available on Vimeo:
  vimeo.com/209395933

Popular reviews

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  Azor 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Sep 2021

  It’s kind of sad to see a lot of English-language reviews complaining that it’s hard to understand what is going on in the movie. Most of the time, the immediate meaning of what the characters are saying is pretty clear, so I assume this is because of all the unexplained references to “changing times,” “disappearances,” “disturbances,” and the like.
  To understand this movie, it probably helps to have a good knowledge of Argentina’s Dirty War period, during which a military junta…

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  The Battle at Lake Changjin 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Nov 2021 2

  All the history/patriotic dorks need to chill out and enjoy the show.
  They gave Tsui Hark an insane budget and he did not disappoint: yeah the movie could have been way shorter, some narrative bits are contrived and boring, but when it gets going it’s one of the best war-action movies I’ve ever seen.

  Some highlights:
  - that long take with the soldiers in the dry riverbed and the airplanes flying over them. Mesmerizing: it gave me one of the…