Tobi Jabari

Tobi Jabari

In tarantino's voice: "I'm making a movie okaayy!"

Favorite films

  • The Hateful Eight
  • The Witch
  • Mirror
  • Aftersun

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  • Heretic

    ★★

  • The Prestige

    ★★★★★

  • Ordinary People

    ★★★½

  • Being John Malkovich

    ★★★★★

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  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★

    Great first half, then a downturn into a jamboree of mediocrity. You can clearly tell the writer is a christian apologist. Fuck you bro.

  • The Prestige

    The Prestige

    ★★★★★

    Definitely Nolan's most underrated film after Memento. This is a brilliant story that plays on deception and unfolds each act of the film like a magic trick. The pledge, the turn and the prestige. It also subverts the protagonist into the antagonist. Good stuff. I also appreciate it's nonlinear structure.

    It is (relatively) simple and no-frills, but is still smart and ambitious. Unlike his other movies, it doesn't "insist upon itself". His other films always "insist upon themselves"... Like, they…

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  • Strange Darling

    Strange Darling

    ★★★★★

    Brilliant subversion. This is how to tell a story. Will be watching again. Giovanni Ribisi does a magnificent work with the cinematography.

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