Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Nov 2024

  Eine Gesichtsstudie.

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  The Creator 2023

  ★★★ Watched 01 Nov 2023

  Great VFX showreel demonstrating the 'CGI first' workflow. Another great demonstration that a movie needs a good script to be a good movie.

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

  ★½ Watched 23 Dec 2019 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★½ Watched 28 Jan 2022

  A unpleasant fever dream.

  No scene, no dialogue, no character has or makes any point. No sentence fells real, no human induces any sympathy.
  Nothing feels alive, a display of utter fiction, desperately grasping for reality, present or past.
  Constantly blabbing on, hoping to find a combination of words, just by chance, that mean something, constantly running, hoping to find something of substance, right around the next corner, or the next, or the next.

  I have never felt this alien…