RioHyska

RioHyska

Favorite films

  • Porco Rosso
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Moonlight

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  • From Up on Poppy Hill

    ★★★½

  • GoodFellas

    ★★★★★

  • Marriage Story

    ★★★★

  • Moonlight

    ★★★★★

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  • From Up on Poppy Hill

    From Up on Poppy Hill

    ★★★½

    Lovely film, pretty down to earth, doesn't try to be a deep cinematic experience, it's just a pretty light hearted cute film with some very sweet and meaningful connotations about family. Also a lovely timepiece showing the push for westernisation in post WW2 Japan. The score was ethereal phenomenal and easily one of the best ghibli scores I've heard at least. Overall lovely film not in a major rush to watch again but then again I might do

  • GoodFellas

    GoodFellas

    ★★★★★

    Just a classic, classic actors, phenomenal score, I think some of the best directing I've ever seen. Nothing I can say hasn't already been said by countless other people.

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  • Marriage Story

    Marriage Story

    ★★★★

    A beautiful, bittersweet drama that displays the massive ups and downs of marriage, divorce and everything inbetween. While Scarlett johansson played her character of Nicole almost flawlessly, Adam Driver takes the cake as the anchor for this film. His character progression through the story displays him as a flawed character with a good heart and he delivered this, I think, flawlessly. The desperation of his character in a notoriously unjust system is made abundantly clear and it was tear provoking…

  • Lady Bird

    Lady Bird

    ★★★★★

    A delightful film. This movie was vibrant though bittersweet. Even though the film depicts a mother-daughter relationship (one that I can't really personally relate to) the relationship is told in such a very down to earth/understandable and human way. The film makes an effort to not demonise any particular characters that seem to get in the way of Lady Bird's life, instead presents these characters as just as complex as the protagonist, thus giving the very saturated genre of "coming…

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