jostrower

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Favorite films

  • Raising Arizona
  • The Return of the Living Dead
  • Good Time
  • Punch-Drunk Love

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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    ★★★½

  • Big Trouble in Little China

    ★★★★½

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    ★★★★

  • Blackmail

    ★★★½

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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    ★★★½

    i enjoy big silly fun sensational hitchcock. peter lorre hamming it up. ending with a 15-minute shoot-out. the constant quips and jokes. an opera assassination. this is north by northwest before north by northwest.

  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    ★★★★½

    been desperately trying to work circumcised mediocrity into a sentence since watching this one.

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  • Man of Steel

    Man of Steel

    what a terrible clusterfuck of a movie. this takes everything people love about superman and destroys it, while amplifying the worst elements of his character. zach snyder seems to want to make you uncomfortable with superman's darkness and moral ambiguity, especially when it comes to mass destruction, but there was not a single moment in the movie where i thought a point was being made. if you want us to question his character, you have to ask the question, zach.…

  • Ashes and Diamonds

    Ashes and Diamonds

    ★★★

    im back in it! after an almost 2 month break of watching barely any movies at all (my job got in the way), i have returned to my criterion challenge. maybe my brain melted during my brief film abstinence because i really couldn't get into this one.

    i think my problem with this movie is consistensy. i am okay with almost any cinematic experience, if the movie sets itself up. i can do slow cinema, you just have to let…