Michael R

Michael R

Favorite films

  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Fight Club
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • Mr. Nobody

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  • Extra Ordinary

    ★★★★

  • Forgotten

    ★★★★

  • Sleep

    ★★★½

  • Fresh

    ★★★½

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  • Five Nights at Freddy's

    Five Nights at Freddy's

    ★★½

    Fans: you had one job; to make a good film while being respectful to the source material.

    Director: these are two jobs.

  • Skinamarink

    Skinamarink

    ★★★★½

    If I directed that film, I would have added a segment at the end of a supposedly actual recording of a phone call that the police got from a young kid asking for help and claiming there are no doors in the house.
    They tried to track the phone call to no avail.
    A case that made the police scratch their heads for years in the 80s.
    What If someone imagined what could have happened on the other side of that call and came up with that masterpiece?

    But to be honest, that could have disrupted the ambiguously surreal atmosphere.

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  • The New Pope

    The New Pope

    ★★★★½

    How can something be
    so cynical yet genial and warm ,
    so emotional yet absurd and ludicrous ,
    so weird yet relatable ,
    so sacrilegious yet divine and reverent ,
    Only Sorrentino knows as he outdoes himself once again in this ;
    -The dialogue is so smart , nearly every sentence is quotable ..
    -The cinematography is jaw dropping , nearly every scene is a painting
    -The music , DAMN , he uses it in a way that manipulates feelings…

  • The Time That Remains

    The Time That Remains

    ★★★★½

    What if Aki Kaurismaki , Roy Anderson , and Wes Anderson were Arabs and their genes of genius were all blended together into the genome of a palestenian ?
    Actually there's a legendary underrated palestenian director and his name is Elia Suleiman who has become instantly one of my favorite directors , This man is a genius .. He integrates comedy and aesthetics into a film that talks about WAR ,
    I was mesmerized by everything but most of all…