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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Mar 2025

  "So how's it going with the Studio Band?"
  "Good. Yeah, I think he likes me more now."
  "And his opinion means a lot to you, doesn't it?"
  "Yeah."

  Esta vez noto que la peli tiene una textura muy marcada de angustia adolescente. La necesidad de ser reconocido por tus padres, la tosqueza social y para el amor (pienso especialmente en la incomodidad y torpeza de la primera cita), la inseguridad y el ego. El color grading y la iluminacion que…

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  Juror #2 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Es increible que Clint Eastwood haya dirigido este peliculon con 94 años

Popular reviews

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  Paprika 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2022 2

  (No real spoilers but still I don’t recommend reading unless you’ve seen it)

  “It’s the truth that came from fiction. Always remember that.”

  Paprika is about fiction.

  Dreams, movies, and our performative identity as fictions which, through their externality to our “real” selves, provide a space where we’re allowed to express certain parts of ourselves that we wouldn’t get to express otherwise. Paprika is not the “fake” Chiba, as Osanai thinks, she’s a mask through which Chiba gets to be…

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  Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 2022

  ½ Watched 17 May 2022

  Oh god.

  What a disaster. To give you an idea, the film’s premise is “we have to stop Grindelwald, but somehow he can see fragments of the future, so we must make a plan to confuse him, which may have some parts that make no sense and might be useless, but are a necessary diversion. Also no one can know the whole plan.”

  This makes the film an incoherent slog, in which disastrous writing is excused by this lackluster premise.…