Alex Ridao

Alex Ridao

Favorite films

  • A Night at the Opera
  • Au Hasard Balthazar
  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Inside Llewyn Davis

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  • Nights of Cabiria

    ★★★★★

  • It Happened One Night

    ★★★★½

  • His Girl Friday

    ★★★★½

  • Safe

    ★★★★★

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  • Safe

    Safe

    ★★★★★

    The sickness quietly creeps in. A cough, a nosebleed, a sudden struggle to breathe. It’s the chemicals in the air, or maybe the food, or maybe the furniture, or maybe nothing at all. The world purrs with a plastic purity, a synthetic sterility, but Carol’s body rebels. She is allergic to her own life. The doctors don’t see it. The psychiatrist doesn’t see it. Her loved ones don’t see it, because to see it is to see the world as…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★

    Fun but a mess. It can’t seem to figure out what it’s about. Develops a character only to give up on her halfway through for no reason. Ruffalo is so good. Big fan of the creepers.

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★

    he not busy being born is busy dying

    Before watching, might be worth listening to / reading ‘Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie’

    Formulaic and not so different from other musical biopics, but the music and subject matter gives it an edge over most of the rest. It chooses not to explore the many contradictions that make Bob such an interesting cultural figure, instead participating in more surface-level boomer mythologising (which we definitely don’t have enough of). Regardless, it’s a fun…

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