Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Paprika 2006

  ★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025 3

  Santoshi Kon has masterful sensibilities as a filmmaker but this one just… missed. The animation, sound design and overall craft of the film is spectacular, it looks incomparably beautiful. But this film as opposed to the achingly fragile ‘Perfectly Blue’ is just “throw everything to the wall and hope it sticks”. In true Satoshi Kon fashion there are some extremely poignant philosophical questions posed through this one and it’s stunningly layered and complex but the handling of it all just…

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  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  A dizzying parable on adulthood, hypocrisy and the greed for more (and perhaps a lot else too). The film walks the narrow line between haunting and hilarious, resulting in a hypnotic film that makes you look for something in its every passing moment. Films this beautiful, visually are simply not made anymore, with Būnuel’s absolutely entrancing blocking, lighting and shot-compositions. Every single scene looks so sumptuous and overwhelming in its beauty. There’s so much to take away from this film, and I hope to revisit it every so often.

Popular reviews

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  Joyland 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2023 1

  🌊🌊🌊

  I want to talk a bit about the important metaphors in this movie first, before I talk about it as a whole, as I feel these smart script and visual direction choices really help peel back the layers further and evince even more emotions from this movie (if that’s even possible) 

  I’ll start with my favourite and probably the one most important to the movie: 

  “one day you should buy a ticket and find out, how big the ocean…

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  Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 02 May 2024 3

  Finished 5 episodes so far: 

  I feel like I’m watching a different show to everyone, because this is so fun.

  Richa Chadha turns in her career-best here, with her mujra being the highlight of the show. The visuals of it were simply intoxicating. Manisha Koirala is delightfully unhinged, like a sort-of Olivia Coleman in ‘The Favourite’ meets Meryl in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’.

  The visuals are as expected, stunning, combined with the explosive pace of the show, the underhanded scheming…