alma

alma

Favorite films

  • Syndromes and a Century
  • Inland Empire
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • Ernest & Celestine

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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

  • Nickel Boys

    ★★★★★

  • Inland Empire

    ★★★★★

  • Mulholland Drive

    ★★★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★★

    contrary to popular belief, I found this to be too short, considering it's thematic Heft. not in any way that significantly impeded my enjoyment. rather, I consider it a testament to corbet and everyone and everything involved in making this movie possible that after 3 and half hours (with an intermission!) I thought to myself: "ok but I would love to know more..."

    creation in the face of, and perhaps in spite of, commerce. how rotten of a person, of…

  • Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys

    ★★★★★

    I went into this as blind as I could be and left the theater ripped to shreds. the night is appropriately somber--the parking lot vacant and dressed in rainwater, the air cold and still, the streets quiet. I set the scene because this is a movie that you sort of need to sit with for some time, I think, or to at least soak in alone, and as I walked out of the empty theater (the only other person there…

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  • End Channels

    End Channels

    the lack of rating and substance in this review is not necessarily an indication of how I felt about the movie. I just think it's ridiculous to even think about viewing this critically.

    this is my dearest friend, whom I have endless love for in my heart, in full display, as protest and as a self-examination. even disregarding its wildly inaccessible approach--with its digital distortions, corrupted vlog visual style, abandonment of form, and lack of cohesion (these are not flaws,…

  • Inland Empire

    Inland Empire

    ★★★★★

    twisted, ridiculous terror. elicits nervous laughter and other funny sensations, by sequences of distress and distrust that cross-reference each other and never seem to end. a movie in which no scene feels safe, and no frame is without threat, and, often times, you're supposed to laugh. for it is indeed freakish, ghoulish, and alien, but also it is, as previously stated, so often too ridiculous not to chuckle. don't let that fool you, though; this movie does certainly Stop being…

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