manthosk

manthosk

The rating is either 5-stars (if it’s of the highest quality/a work of art) or like (if it’s a good film/a joy).

Favorite films

  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Cries and Whispers
  • Stalker
  • Seven Samurai

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  • The Reader

  • Squid Game

  • The Hurt Locker

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  • Little Women

    Little Women

    Proper second watch of Little Women after half a decade. Two things: 1) I was dead wrong and way too harsh the first time, and 2) while Saoirse is an angel, Chalamet has no business starring in this.

    Overall, wonderful stuff.

  • Anora

    Anora

    I love Sean Baker, however it’s his weakest film unfortunately.

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  • Mank

    Mank

    ★★★★★

    In awe with Fincher, he’s just the best in his job. From a technical point alone (who cares), Mank is one of the most exceptionally directed films I’ve ever seen.
    As for its heart and soul, in the first hour or so I was not sure whether it is that special. In the end though? Deserves that big M word which I’m so afraid to write; I need to let that warm, embracing, full filling Cinematic tipsiness sink in for…

  • Malmkrog

    Malmkrog

    ★★★★★

    Rationalism and moral relativism vs faith, progressive vs absurd, new world vs old world. Malmkrog was an out of nowhere tremendous, thunderous, colossal cinematic experience that I couldn’t see it coming.

    It’s not just the wonderful and top mise en scene since The Assassin, or the painstaking detail its fabric is made of or the immaculate staging out of a Tarkovsky film (I can’t believe I’m saying this), or the sociopolitically phenomenal era and place Cristi Puiu chose to kaleidoscopically…