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  • Taxi Driver
  • The Exorcist

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  • Riceboy Sleeps

    ★★★

  • Afire

    ★★★½

  • The Suicide Squad

  • Sound of Metal

    ★★★

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  • Riceboy Sleeps

    Riceboy Sleeps

    ★★★

    This movie gets described as having very universal themes, which it does have but it is also so much more. There are many themes, all of them presented in (mostly) subtle ways and therefor powerful ways. They are all told with such a confidence that you feel a trust towards the makers of the film. And thus you can really experience them.
    This confidence is also seen in all the other aspects of the film. The directing feels so natural…

  • Afire

    Afire

    ★★★½

    As a filmmaker that often struggles with being creative and the stress and self doubt that it takes with it, I find this movie very relatable.
    As someone who is very introverted and emotionally closed off to the point where I think nobody would understand, I found this movie uncomfortably relatable.

    The way Christian Petzold is able to do so much with so little
    As a director and writer is very inspiring. When the movie starts, it felt like he…

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  • The Suicide Squad

    The Suicide Squad

    What I love about James Gunn’s Guardians Of The Galaxy films are the tone at which the movies moves along to and the characters. While both movies have good jokes in them, the story never loses focus and the emotional scenes still work and don’t feel out of place. James Gunn is also a great character writer. Writing original, flawed but weirdly relatable characters that all work because they undergo an interesting arc.

    To find these two qualities lacking in…

  • El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

    El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

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