Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Dec 2016

  Colorless green weapons sleep furiously.

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  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016

  ★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2017

  Meh.

Popular reviews

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  Clair Obscur 2016

  ★★½ Watched 10 Feb 2017

  Although acting is near perfect, there are some strong issues with the storyline of this movie. Characters are not built as they should have been. Yeşim Ustaoğlu clearly wanted to make a non-cause-and-effect story, but this is the type of movie that you should go cause-and-effect, considering it is about psychoanalysis!

  The biggest problem is that Şehnaz (Funda Eryiğit) was not drawn as a solid character. She is very good at her work, but she cannot analyze her own husband,…

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  The Girl with the Red Scarf 1977

  ★★★★ Rewatched 10 Dec 2015

  I can easily say that Atıf Yılmaz's magnum opus, The Girl with the Red Scarf is the first Turkish movie that has cinematographic climax in it. The use of diegetic vs. non-diegetic voice has become a trend in Turkish movies whilist adapting other novels. The use of music is also inspiring. All along, The Girl with the Red Scarf stands out one of the biggest pieces in Turkish motion picture history.