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  The Apprentice 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  A maximalist fever dream - the American Dream realized, or, the birth of a killer.

  Sebastian Stan’s ability to slowly unspool Trump’s essence as he descents into megalomania is a major component of the film’s triumph. Jeremy Strong is electric as Roy Cohn, his subsequent downfall, juxtaposed with Trump’s hollow ascension, is handled masterfully. I missed him every second he wasn’t onscreen. 

  The music choices are exceptional, and the lens’s gritty grain effect and boxy aspect ratio a time machine.

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  Excalibur 1981

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  This is cinema as vibe. Feeling rather than story.

  The story jumps around and the plot threads fray - but I say let them! Who cares! Trying to cram the entire Arthurian legend into a two hour film was never about neatness anyway.

  What Excalibur managed to nail is the soul of the myth: it’s lustrous, hypnotic, brutal, dreamlike, and otherworldly. An atmospheric film that prioritizes visual splendor - glistening, mirror-like plate armor, flowing fabrics drenched in color, forests so…

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Jan 2024 1

  Yorgos’ finest work after Sakis Rouvas’ theleis i de theleis mv

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  The Travelling Players 1975

  ★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  Talk about a film that demands patience. The almost meditative pacing definitely tested mine.

  Haunting, choreographed shots, with each one feeling deliberately framed, as if the world itself is a theater - but the characters felt distant. By the time I started connecting, my focus was frayed. The non linear structure of it all and the chaos that brought on was what kept the film alive. 

  It’s very clearly a masterpiece to most, just not one I was fully able…