Luke O’Connell

Luke O’Connell

I frequently give high ratings because I rarely go outside of my comfort zone.

Favorite films

  • Perfect Blue
  • Fanny and Alexander
  • The Substance
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • Beautiful Men

    ★★★★★

  • Yuck!

    ★★★★★

  • Wander to Wonder

    ★★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

    Really solid; smart anti fascist action sci-fi movie. I feel like RPats did a magnificent double/multiple job and the whole cast was great. Wonderful effects etc and funny and bleak and good 

    But I feel like it was just almostttttt perfect and not reaching its full potential; but I enjoyed it a lot etc. I could sense and feel what he wanted to do, just needed to be more him and weirder (bjh). The pigeon.. inspired

  • Beautiful Men

    Beautiful Men

    ★★★★★

    Really great. Fascinating. It just totally strikes you, even with such a weird and "silly" topic. Something about the humanity under it all felt very real. Incredible!

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  • My Own Private Idaho

    My Own Private Idaho

    ★★★★

    Beautiful, incredible performance by River Phoenix—a great loss, a beautiful perfect man. Everything about his character and him were just absolutely incredible. Bravo—I wish an entire movie was just his face. Him and his brother (?), and his acting, his beauty, his love. Ugh

    Great, moving, interesting film, but I just couldn't find myself particularly moved by the Henry iv stuff and the whole Bob relationship as much as was intended—the script felt like it fell apart, even if it…

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★★

    THAT WAS SO GOOD HOLY FUCK MIKEY MADISON GANG RISE!!!!!!!!!! Holy shit perfect script perfect film. So fucking good FUCK!!!! Connection and storytelling and drama in the outer boroughs

    The fur and screams and the kidnapping scene and her nails and the club ahhhhh it had everything but she pulled off the PATHOS. I cared! There was plenty of slapstick but it felt REAL and I CARED

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