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  The Tree of Life 2011

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Jan 2025

  “Brother. Keep us. Guide us. Till the end of time.”

  
  On the special extended edition of the criterion collection, The Tree of Life is divided into 22 chapters. Malick’s intention could not have been made clearer than it is in this layout: The movie starts off with Chastain’s monologue about ‘nature and grace’, devotes by far the longest chapter to ‘creation’, explores memories of childhood through themes like ‘innocence’, ‘conflict’, and ‘independence’ until it finally arrives at the destination of…

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  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Jan 2024

  “I can't do this, Sam.“

  “I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened?
  But in the end, it's only a passing…

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  What do you call something that has no purpose on its own whatsoever and only serves a fabricated narrative? Perhaps ‘a means to an end’ might be the term for it, but anyways, this is exactly what Mickey 17 suffers from. All that happens content-wise in this film is useless. What is beyond this expedition? What needs to happen to colonize it? How is the progress? What about the inhabitants? It all touches a bit on these but never enough…

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  The Host 2006

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  The problem I always had with Bong films is his undisputable change of genre. The Host starts off fairly dramatic – a father losing his daughter, a poor family struggling with the circumstances and each other – but then turns more and more comedic in an abstruse way. The action is still absolutely fine, however, with great visual effects the usual Korean artistic cinematography.

  
  Then, there is the message and ‘double meaning’ part…

  “We have to accept everything the government…

Popular reviews

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  La Haine 1995

  ★★ Watched 24 Jun 2021

  La Haine ends with a banger, an unforgettable climax, and that is the only reason why it is rated so very high. Most of the people watch this film exactly because it is rated so high, and they think that they have to like it in order to understand cinema. And so, this very shocking ending gives everybody a reason to rate it high. Everybody is now speechless, and the film is one of the greatest of all time. That…

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  There Will Be Blood 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Jun 2021 5

  Original Review

  
  However villainous and anti-heroic, there is no character in the world of cinema I can relate more to than Daniel Plainview.

  Probably everybody knows those pubertal crybabies who always claim to “hate people” just before they meet up with their “bestie” or whatever the fuck. But if there is one person who has to right to hate all the people, then it is Daniel Plainview. He truly hates people. But he has hope and, in the film, all…