Riao

Riao

Favorite films

  • Children of Men
  • The Batman
  • Nosferatu
  • Little Miss Sunshine

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  • Incendies

    ★★★★½

  • I'm Still Here

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Thelma & Louise

    ★★★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★½

    When you have two Robert Pattinsons doing silly voices as the leads, it should be illegal to cut to anything else.

    Mickey 17 was my most anticipated movie of the year, and I gotta say, I’m a bit disappointed.

    Simply put, the movie has too many characters. And they’re not just quirky side characters with good hearts; each of them has their own subplot. Not only are these subplots uninteresting, but they also keep interrupting the main (and actually interesting)…

  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    Walk the Line with a less down bad Protagonist.

    As someone who knows next to nothing about Bob Dylan (which perhaps makes me less qualified to criticize the movie), A Complete Unknown feels more like a showcase of how good Lil' Timmy Tim is at performing Dylan’s songs than a fully engaging biopic. The film makes little to no effort to explore who Dylan actually is; his origins, his family, even his motivations are all absent from the story.

    Compared…

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

    Best romance movie I've ever watched.

    Oh, have I yearned for a movie with this much sauce and artistry in its dialogue. Every time a character speaks, I gasp and yell at my screen, "Ey, that's poetry!"

    Memorable lines such as "My heart is lost without my Thomas," "I do protest! Restrain your protestation!" and "By first crow of cock" (which they repeat many times, by the way) aren't just spoken, they’re engraved into my brain, music to my ear,…

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