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  The Room Next Door 2024

  ★★★ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  Pedro Almodovar's first full-length English-language feature revolves around the topic of euthanasia. As depressing and well-intentioned as it sounds, the signature colors of Almodovar spreads around the corners of the film, but it "sounds" sterile. The stilted dialogue flattens the central struggle. There's floridness in how Almodovar writes his script and according to some, even in his native Spanish he's quite florid so what more in a stiffer English language? It's more of a technical issue per se, but also…

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  The Taste of Things 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Feb 2024

  Kitchen as love cathedral. Food as life's sustenance. Tran Anh Hung's sensational film centers on middle-aged love, and it completely defies any expectations of such romance. It's sensuous and romantic while being unassuming with its proceedings. It's gentle and patient. While it's also good to point out the exceptionally made cooking sequences, that made me drool all the way. Former lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel both are a marvel. Had an electrifying chemistry from the start, and they've been here so they know. But Binoche is glowing like no other. That performance is amazing.

Popular reviews

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  Nights of Cabiria 1957

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Nov 2020 5

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Whiplash 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2015 1

  Damien Chazelle's smashing, adrenaline-fueled, electrifying drama is bloody exhilarating to watch as it is uncomfortably compelling. Chazelle is surely one of the up and coming directors we need to watch out for. His youthful, energetic, intense direction is felt on screen and it's mind-blowing. The film follows a young jazz drummer and his quest to be the best among the rest in a prestigious music conservatory.

  This film reminds me of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, and Black Swan, as their…