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  Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2020

  This movie is an incredible piece of art. Some of the scenes even looked like paintings. I thought it also did amazing things with silence, or even moments when there's sound but no people are talking. This movie is also very much about art, particularly how it connects emotion and memory.
  Portrait of a Lady on Fire is also interesting from a tonal perspective in that it is gorgeous, quiet and incredibly upset, much like character Heolise. I think a…

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  1917 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2020

  1917 deserves all the praise it is getting. This is war movie that shows the utter terror and grotesqueness that soldiers in WW1 experienced. At the same time, it is a story of heroism, friendship, and the ability to remain altruistic in the most miserable circumstances imaginable. This is a also a super tense suspense movie that wastes no time get getting into the story. Finally, the way they made this in two shots is amazing. The photography and the score were haunting and gorgeous. This movie is a great achievement.

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  Pain and Glory 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Oct 2019

  Pedro Almodovar is an incredible filmmaker because the story in "Pain and Glory" was not that interesting to me, but basically everything else in the movie was amazing. The settings, the colors, the clothes, the editing, and more. Everyone in this film gave an incredible performance too.

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  Burning 2018

  ★★★½ Added

  I spent the whole movie trying to keep track of the various unanswered questions and then it gets to the end and I couldn't figure out what I was left with. I've heard people say it's about class differences and how that leads to radicalism but I can't say that occurred to me initially. That said, I dig that eerie enigmatic Murakami vibe and so I still thought this was pretty entertaining.

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