Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Devil's Advocate 1997

  Watched 19 Mar 2025

  don't get how this cheesy high-concept "the firm"-meets-"rosemary's baby" ever got it's cult status

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  Other People's Children 2022

  Watched 19 Mar 2025

  great to know that I still can fall in love with movie characters

  intelligent beautiful people being happy and going through minor inconveniences of life, what's not to love?

Popular reviews

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  Anora 2024

  Watched 23 Dec 2024

  with everything right about the film, one detail really ruins it: how anora, with her professional cynicism, couldn't see Ivan for what he was? didn't she meet rich mama's boys before? we understand everything about him from second one, why doesn't she? same with Igor

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  Rosetta 1999

  Watched 31 Jan 2025

  the crucial question for me was this one: what sets apart this beautiful social yet existentialist film from cheap poverty porn that it inspired in the following years?

  it seems to me that it is the inherit dignity that titular character possess. she's not driven by poverty, but by her pride. she disagrees with her fate and it elevates her otherwise trivial search for work to some spiritual level

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