Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Spirit of the Beehive 1973

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 May 2024

  Totally sublime. A perfect film.

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  The Teachers' Lounge 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Jan 2024

  I hope this gets the attention it deserves because it’s fucking fantastic.

Popular reviews

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  Stalker 1979

  ★ Watched 07 May 2020 5

  90% of Stalker is three men aimlessly wandering around while spouting senseless philosophical ramblings. That combined with the fact that this is one of the most poorly subtitled movies in existence and its 2h 43m long runtime makes for an irredeemably boring slog of a film.
  The concept itself is pretty interesting (a zone which grants your deepest desires on condition that you are able to formulate them) but it takes far too long to get there. The ending was good but by the time I reached it I had nearly pulled all my hair out and skinned myself.

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  Lost in Translation 2003

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Apr 2020 1

  Beautiful.
  To love something you know you can't have.
  To forget responsibilities and live in that brief moment, knowing it won't last.
  It captures the mood of two people at a crossroads in their lives so perfectly. The dialogue here feels natural, the little smiles, the stumbled words and the longing glances. Considering how short the script is, this somehow manages to say so much. In fact, it's in the silence that Lost in Translation feels most alive. With it's…