I like watching a movie from Iran and feeling like it's very humanistic, tender and just really layered. Philosophically rich, touching, timeless yet rooted in its own time and place. They happen to also have funny moustaches and old cars and it sometimes looks like it was filmed with a potato. Obviously this is just incidental to what makes it interesting. It's the other stuff that makes it great right? It would be pretty bizarre and kinda obnoxious to fixate…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Favorite part is when the space witch space travels back to her planet and warns everyone that space nazi Powder might be a “sociopath”. After she tortured and fucked him too haha
I think every one of his movies usually has a character shouting “don’t you understand how high the stakes are?!” But he had to pack in so much he couldn’t find the moment to tell me this time, and so tbh I sometimes checked out during a battle.…
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The Imposter 2012
Story felt kinda diminished by having the main guy casually walk us through it all like a DVD featurette. ‘Oké feck feck… I tut, what do I do now?’
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All of Us Strangers 2023
“Writers be like: this character will be…a writer”
Not exactly 3 stars. Kinda one-note and claustrophobic but I was moved.
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