Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Basic Instinct 1992

  ★★ Rewatched 18 Dec 2024

  At least in his smut-peddling European days Verhoeven had some coherent points to make about coming-of-age, toxic relationship, or religious represiveness. In Hollywood he doubled down on nudity and provocativeness, upped his bombasticness, but lost any substance. This movie is so busy breaking next taboos on the screen, that viewed these days with every taboo now the most obvious, corporate background noise, there is left nothing aside from garbage plot, ridiculous ending, occasional witty retort in the script, and a nice chemistry between the leads. Though I must claim, Goldsmith's score is absolutely outstansing. Steamy, claustrophobic, and more erotic than any vulgar line written by Eszterhas.

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  Sliver 1993

  ½ Rewatched 19 Dec 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  Last Tango in Paris 1972

  ★½ Watched 30 Jun 2018 12

  W̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶l̶e̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶r̶a̶p̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶"̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶r̶t̶"̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶h̶i̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶k̶i̶t̶s̶c̶h̶y̶ ̶̶m̶e̶l̶o̶d̶r̶a̶m̶a̶.

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  Personal Shopper 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Jan 2020

  Perfectly delineated and understated story, even more masterfully directed; not sure. Incomplete, interrupted, smooth; still not sure. Kristen Stewart, frumoasă.. that's for sure