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  Wild at Heart 1990

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Quentin Tarantino eat your heart out

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Could arguably be the greatest effort of the decade so far, but is catastrophically handicapped by its desire to be a “Great American Work” (The Ordeal of Civility) instead of just being “A Great Work”

  The score was indeed worthy of the Academy Award. Stayed in the theater for the entire intermission just zoning out listening to the haunting but beautiful modern piano improv.

  The unearned holocaust/zionism buzzer beater at the end was distasteful, arguably on purpose. If indeed “that…

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Nov 2024

  The Russian literary trope of the “superfluous man” meets the American film trope of the “hooker with a heart of gold.”
  Baker will go in history as the first post-Obama filmmaker to convey real romantic love on the silver screen.

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  Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ 1981

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Jul 2024 1

  Portraying Gallo as Christ could quickly be dismissed as arrogant NYC art scene hype driven narcissism. But I would argue that this is a case of subconscious interrelation. Because to me, Vincent Gallo is a messianic figure. A redeemer.

  He emerged as a director around the turn of the millennium, to redeem the film world that was headed towards rapture (The Post-08 era).

  His two major works: Buffalo ‘66 (1998) and The Brown Bunny (2004) teach Christ’s message: love for…

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