Mike

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“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.” - Pedro Almodóvar.   | 26 | 🇵🇷

Favorite films

  • Tropical Malady
  • Blue Velvet
  • Phantom Thread
  • Strange Days

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  • Rosemary's Baby

    ★★★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★½

  • Smile 2

    ★★★

  • Novocaine

    ★★★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    Whew— the allegory is not subtle…and it is fuckin’ beautiful. With every minute of Mickey 17, there was a dumbfounded smile happening on my face, mostly because of Robert Pattinson’s brilliantly zany performance. Also because of the state-of-the-art VFX in every single frame, taking my breath away, and also because I just couldn’t believe Bong Joon Ho would make something quite like this, tonally speaking, I guess, after making history over the West with his magnum opus, Parasite. But then…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    Promise me you won’t let it drive you mad. 

    Extraordinary. The End and the Beginning of American Epics. The Brutalist tells an unflinching story about human resilience, power, abuse, abuse of power, and how it all comes face to face with the so-called American dream. Brady Corbet, alongside his incredible cinematographer Lol Crawley, has created a wholly original, superbly performed piece of filmmaking that will surely stand the test of time to become a landmark in American cinema moving forward.…

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★½

    It's been a while since we had a traitor to dinner. 

    Probably my favorite aspect about Black Bag is its perfectly satisfying ending. Read between the lines. Ironic considering that’s one of the things I hated the most about Presence, Steven Soderbergh’s first other outing this year. This is such a focused, intelligent script. In a way that I thought it wasn’t possible anymore. Black Bag is Soderbergh in perfect form. A thriller with no dead weight and filled with…

  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★½

    Jack Quaid is so damn likable in Novocaine— landing punchlines, surviving booby traps, and killing muscled, bearded idiots all with so much charm and charisma. He’s just got the juice, sorry to say.

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  • Sound of Freedom

    Sound of Freedom

    ½

    Pretty much one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Trump cult followers will have a blast, though.

  • Waves

    Waves

    ★★★★★

    "He's not a monster. He's not evil. He's just a human being."

    That line, perfectly delivered by Sterling K. Brown, perfectly describes what Trey Edward Shults is trying to do here. Showing us what makes us humans. Hate. Love. Forgiveness and loss. But also, how sometimes we can thrive and try to move on. We cannot change the past. We have to move on one way or another.

    I understand why this film wouldn't work for some and I get…