Riley

Riley

heal from ico on repeat

silencio..

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • Grave of the Fireflies

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  • Spirited Away

    ★★★★½

  • God's Not Dead

    ½

  • Beau Is Afraid

  • Dream Scenario

    ★★½

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  • God's Not Dead

    God's Not Dead

    ½

    Honestly kind of disgusting strawman of atheists. Just adds to more polarization in this country. There's plenty else wrong with the movie too, but this is what bothers me the most. I mean I get why there are so many like right wing Christian / catholic people in the U.S. convinced the left worships Satan and wants to corrupt their children etc etc when this is the kind of propaganda they watch, nobody is this cartoonishly malicious, hateful, and obnoxious.

  • Beau Is Afraid

    Beau Is Afraid

    I've got no idea what to rate it, but it was amazing. Definitely the most stressful / anxiety provoking movie since Uncut Gems, it's practically a horror movie at parts.

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  • Black Ice

    Black Ice

    ★★★

    Should've been a miniseries. Succintly, thats the core problem with the movie.

    There's a lot to cover with this topic and thats why it doesn't work as a movie. It isn't as focused as it should be. Thats not to say that anything in here has to go, but it should be given more time and that's not going to happen in a movie like this that tries to focus on everything.

    There's this just constant switching and flipping around…

  • Avatar

    Avatar

    ★★★★★

    First (and only) time I saw Avatar I fell asleep. I wanted to watch it again in preparation for Avatar 2, and to my surprise I loved it.

    It was really the perspective I came into it with that changed how I saw it. You always hear the criticism for Avatar in discussions, everyone wants to undermine it as just being about the visuals. But I heard the arguments actually for the movie, and they really opened up how I…

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