Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Cornshukker 1997

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Oct 2022

  It’s got the juice.

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  The Burden 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2022

  As we zoom out on the floating, corporate space chunk, and strings breathe a last breath, I hear a newborn crying in the apartment above me, feeling the weight of newfound burden. My eyes well up; a tear rolls down my cheek, wailing in autotune 🥹

Popular reviews

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  Fanny and Alexander 1982

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Apr 2015

  Yes. This is the way Bergman's magnum opus must be viewed. The length gave the story and characters so much more room to breathe and develop.

  There is something substantial about Fanny and Alexander; It's thematic saturation of spirituality, good vs. evil and family. Are they in hell? Purgatory? Are the characters symbolic of the seven deadly sins? I'm still making sense of it, and I'm sure I will for the next couple of days (which is exciting).

  Let me know what you think :D

  -A

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  Nightcrawler 2014

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 02 Jul 2015

  Definitely a grower for me. The final restaurant sequence is still as potent as it was when I watched it in the theater. I applaud Gilroy's direction and screenplay; a very relevant exploration into the relationship between entrepreneurship and explotation in the media today. Lou Bloom is, in a very morbid/possibly foretelling way, the American Dream fully realized: a late "Bloomer." 😆