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Favorite films

  • Panchatanthiram
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Memories of Murder

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  • One of Them Days

    ★★★½

  • The Gorge

    ★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★½

  • Wolf Man

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  • Viduthalai: Part II

    Viduthalai: Part II

    ★★★

    I love his unapologetic lecture, his pure contempt for police, upper class atrocities and how the systems designed to suppress communist ideals operate. 

    His raw passion for the ideas and themes always bleeds through the screen however, in this film it’s held back heavily by awful editing/pacing and a general lack of “cinema”. It’s tell don’t show. The power of image and sound meshed together to curate an intangible yet deeply moving experience is missing and instead we have endless exposition, narration,…

  • Singin' in the Rain

    Singin' in the Rain

    ★★★★½

    one of the most beautiful, fun and well crafted art pieces humanity has created.

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★½

    the joke is on Anora? Mikey Madison’s performance is deceptively good and it only hit me on my walk home.  

    Ivan has his fun with her and throws her out to crawl back to her life, and so does the movie. large chunk of the movie being hijinks, the comedy of chasing Ivan around, all the funny quips and tedious slapstick created through some really fun performances (none of which reached the heights that Tangerine did for me) almost…

  • Strange Darling

    Strange Darling

    ★★★½

    Willa Fitzgerald is AMAZING. Kyle Gallner is great too. I really wanted to like this more than I do. The visuals I like but I did not like the writing. After the most obvious twist it turns into “women amirite fellas” and loses all thrill factor it had going. I like the sort of dry dark comedy aspect here but it feels like there’s only two pre programmed responses to this, either “this is so cunt” or “I hate women…

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