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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  ★★★½ Rewatched 22 Feb 2025

  I always struggle to decide what to think of Mulholland Drive. On one hand, it's very fragmented and impossible to not see how it was originally a pilot for a series similar to Twin Peaks - especially production quality wise... On the other hand, the movie features some of the most brilliant scenes in Lynch's filmography (the Winkie's diner scene, for example, holy shit).

  And I think that might be my final verdict: I love the scenes, but not necessarily…

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  Tess 1979

  ★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2025

  Fantastic looking movie. Every frame feels natural and authentic...
  That being sad, that's all the good I can sincerely say about Tess. Browsing through the other reviews praising it, I feel confused, like I was watching a completely different movie.

  Tess is like her main character: beautiful, but painfully boring, lacks any meaningful character, or progress. Ironically, anything that could be interesting happens out of frame. Sure, it's tragic, Tess didn't deserve her fate, but... I guess that's it. Is…

Popular reviews

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  Sorcerer 1977

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2024

  Friedkin was a madman and directed a movie so good movie goers collectively knew he had to be stopped. They decided to bomb it by going to watch Star Wars instead. Cinema would have been irreversibly peaked before the 80's otherwise.

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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  ★★★★ Rewatched 06 Jan 2025

  Not flawless, but I think it's superior to the original in almost every aspect. It not only looks and sounds great, but finally has an intriguing story that makes you really feel for what's happening on the screen (even Harrison Ford seems genuinely invested).

  This time, the world not only makes much more sense, but we see different landscapes with their own stories. Blade Runner was a beautiful mess, an overstylized visual meditation on an intentionally anachronistic noir city -…