riyath ahmed

riyath ahmed

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  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

    ★★★

  • Megalopolis

  • Longlegs

    ½

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    Silly, sexy and tender. A romcom of a sort rich in color and subtly beautiful shots. Sean Baker knows how to keep you laughing right until the moment you don’t realize you’re crying.

    Mikey Madison delivers a performance here worth paying attention to—a doe-eyed ingénue who can deliver the most believable Jersey “Fuck You” I’ve ever heard. She will be going places (likely to the Academy Awards for this one)

  • The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

    The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

    ★★★

    The more you just go with this one the better it gets. Adam Driver does his damnedest, and sometimes you wonder if Terry Gilliam should have cast him here (or made this movie at all). Cast your logic aside; you won’t be needing it here. Instead, soak up the absurd, the pomp, the ridiculousness. Don’t be afraid to be a knight errant of your own imagination!

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ½

    Watching this felt like I was being pranked. Was I in the right theater? Surely this couldn’t be the hideously scary psychological thriller on par with Hereditary and The Exorcist, because this movie absolutely stunk. The grey-washed visuals, the gratingly hammy Nicholas Cage performance, and the Satanic mysticism (carried out in the stupidest fucking way possible oh my god). I never say movies waste my time, even the bad ones, but I’m willing to make an exception here.

  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    If you go to the movies for things like plot, narrative or anything other than insane, incoherently baffling allegories—I’m sorry, you are simply a baby. A child. A buffoon. 

    Your simpleton mind is not able to comprehend why Adam Driver was shot in the face, had his brains fused with his miracle material, and all of a sudden he was healed while seeing through all of the dimensions of time & space (which, for some reason, he is able to stop…

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