JackRi

JackRi

Favorite films

  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Inherent Vice
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • The Hunt

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  • The Show About the Show

    ★★★★

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★★

  • Postcard From Earth

    ★★★★

  • To Be

    ★★★½

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  • The Show About the Show

    The Show About the Show

    ★★★★

    This is great but it kind of tires itself out after the first few episodes.

    I feel like Caveh is not being as honest here as he presents himself to be. The detached / comedic narration style comes off as sort of performative. We see everyone else behave irrationally and emotionally but never Caveh, of his actions we only ever get a calm recount or reenactment. Given the circumstances, this lack of visceral emotion feels dishonest. Still, it's an interesting approach to a theme rarely taken seriously.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    This felt a bit goofy at times, and unlike his other films it didn't match the tone perfectly. But the visuals were more than enough to make up for it.

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  • Inherent Vice

    Inherent Vice

    ★★★★★

    Wow. The reviews on this one really misled me.

    I was expecting two and a half hours of surreal, funny but only loosely connected vignettes with a lot ✨️left up to my interpretation.✨️

    But actually, this movie has a very clear plot, very clear themes, and wasn't even that confusing. It was extremely dense, so maybe it would have been harder to understand in a cinema, but if you can rewind every now and then it's not too bad.

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  • Badlands

    Badlands

    ★★★★½

    Beautiful and mesmerizing. I can see Terrence Mallick becoming one of my favorite directors if this is representative.

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