rhodopsin

rhodopsin

Favorite films

  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Taste of Cherry
  • Amadeus

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  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

    ★★★★★

  • The Breakfast Club

    ★½

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

    Extremely fun action-comedy with very unsubtle (but still tasteful) commentaries on the Trump administration. Acting is great across the board but ROBBIE PATTINSON is the fucking GOAT. The story becomes very predictable and a little too cluttered with expositions about 2/3 way through, and I feel like the ethical qualms of creating “Multiples” is a fascinating concept on paper that is unfortunately kinda underbaked in the actual film. It could really use some room to breathe and explore its ideas…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★

    Now is perhaps the perfect time for a “broken American dream” narrative from the perspective of a first generation immigrant, and The Brutalist delivered that quite extraordinarily. It is genuine insanity that it managed to be one of the best looking pieces of cinema form last year while having an extremely humble budget of 10 million dollars. There’s a lot of clever camera work that saved the film from needing to create more set pieces and still made the scenes look…

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  • Walking with Beasts

    Walking with Beasts

    ★★★★★

    Imagine some parent putting this on the TV for their child in the early 2000s because they thought “oh it’s the sequel to that dinosaur show Timmy liked”.

    Then 20 minutes into the first episode little Timmy witnessed the gastornis baby chick being eaten down to the bone by an army of ants only for its mother to later discover its bloody skeletal remains in visceral detail.

    Paleo documentaries used to be fucking RAW.

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    As someone who didn’t know anything about Bob Dylan prior to watching this film, my biggest gripe with it is that I still don’t think I’ve learned anything new about Bob Dylan as a person from watching it. My takeaways are that he wrote a lot of songs, was kind of a douchebag, and everyone around him just constantly bended over backwards to kiss his ass regardless of how reckless and selfish his actions were. The film could use a…

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