Luka Mullen

Luka Mullen

Favorite films

  • There Will Be Blood
  • Down by Law
  • Crumb
  • Martin Eden

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  • Staying Vertical

    ★★★½

  • Vagabond

    ★★★½

  • Julien Donkey-Boy

    ★★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

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  • Santiago

    Santiago

    Coated with Western culture, inundated with its machinery and the complex history of one man. Vast artistic object—and it's only a minute long.

  • The Master

    The Master

    ★★★★½

    A movie with a proper underbelly. No need to tie the concepts up in a bow—let them brew and bubble in a world created by the characters. Some people seem to have a problem with this, but it's what makes The Master so large.

    I had my eye on Dodd this time around. A man who controls others because he cannot control himself.

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  • Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness

    ★★

    I and II were alright, III had waaaaay too much on its plate.

    This anthology just keeps missing the right notes. At certain times it feels contrived, at others undercooked, or plain uninteresting, or random, insignificant, messy, tedious, puzzling, frivolous. These stories would have benefited from some more focused world-building.

    Plemmons, Stone, and Dafoe heighten the material.

    The title cards remind me of the stupid ones from The Menu.

    The score is annoying, he has to stop with that.

    Emma…

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    I'm usually opposed to this way of collecting cheap laughs, but the Armenians were too good.

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