Oliver Kalb

Oliver Kalb

Favorite films

  • A Man Escaped
  • The Mirror
  • Margaret
  • Twin Peaks: The Return

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  • The Florida Project

    ★★★★★

  • Ivan's Childhood

    ★★★★½

  • Stranger by the Lake

    ★★★★½

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

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  • The Florida Project

    The Florida Project

    ★★★★★

    Surprised myself by fully crying during Moonee’s last run through the Magic Kingdom, so moving — you can’t take her freedom away! Made me think about the innocence of childhood, how there are all of these associations we have with adulthood that make us judge the mom, but to Moonee that’s just her life. Kids are free until we teach them to be unfree and learn all the limitations and constraints of adult life, the shackles of having to contend…

  • The Thin Red Line

    The Thin Red Line

    ★★★★★

    Watch ur mouth when talkin bout the Father of the Bride !!

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  • Bottoms

    Bottoms

    ½

    Amazingly unfunny but my experience was also compounded by a horrible theater situation that had nothing to do with the movie but made it even worse, where the woman next to me was violently coughing and sneezing throughout the whole trailers (ten minutes or so of straight coughing) such that I literally put my shirt over my face as a mask, she left at a certain point to get water or whatever and then came back and just started sneezing…

  • May December

    May December

    ★★★★★

    I knew I was riveted because I didn’t get up to pee once. Performances were amazing — I think my favorite I’ve seen of both Natalie & Julianne Moore — but I think what was really special about this was how well observed the details of the household and the family dynamic were. The detail of Joe having never smoked weed felt like it contained so much weight of implication — that part of what was taken away from him was…