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offmiles

Favorite films

  • Marriage Story
  • In the Mood for Love
  • A Woman Under the Influence
  • Buffalo '66

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  • New York Stories

    ★★★★½

  • Bird

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★

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  • New York Stories

    New York Stories

    ★★★★½

    This review and the subsequent rating is only evocative of my opinions on the Life lessons short, because I feel the need to talk about how I like to think one of the closest American films we've ever seen that captures the essence of Wong Kar Wai is not his own foray into the states with Blueberry Nights, but rather the Life Lessons segment of New York Stories by none other than one of the few masters of American cinema…

  • Bird

    Bird

    ★★★½

    Andrea Arnold lives in the same realm as Sean Baker and I’m so here for it!!!

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  • There Will Be Blood

    There Will Be Blood

    ★★★★★

    The title There Will Be Blood is a biblical reference to Exodus, where Aaron is told to smite the waters of Egypt so they become blood. Blood would flow through the lands, poisoning the fish making it undrinkable for the people of Egypt. However in Paul Tomas Anderson's 2007 masterpiece the blood of the land and driving force of the film: Oil! 

    A stone cold and bone chilling piece, TWBB examines the two pillars America was built on, capitalism and…

  • The Wolf of Wall Street

    The Wolf of Wall Street

    ★★★★½

    More drugs, more money, more sex, more F bombs, more dwarfs. The Wolf of Wall Street is never afraid to keep adding more. 

    Watching Wolf feels like a drug in and of itself. It's intoxicating fun and endless parties provide for one of the most enjoyable viewing experiences out there. Glamorizing the abuse of wealth and power unlike anything before it, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio perfectly capture Jordan Belfort's cocaine and quaalude fueled chaos. 

    In the hands of someone…

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