Waleed Akbar

Waleed Akbar

Favorite films

  • Boogie Nights
  • Fight Club
  • Léon: The Professional
  • In the Mood for Love

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  • 2046

    ★★★★

  • Past Lives

    ★★★★★

  • Dune

    ★★★½

  • King Kong

    ★★★★

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★★

    Devastatingly beautiful. Greta Lee snubbed of an Oscar nomination. Up there as one of my favorites of 2023.

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★½

    While continuing to procrastinate seeing the sequel, I re-watched this for the first time since it came out and am still a little bit underwhelmed. It’s a solid movie for sure, but I just feel like it leaves a lot to be desired. I don’t really care about the characters. It looks amazing though. Even at home it’s visually stunning, so I’m sure in theaters it’d be even more of a spectacle. Obviously I understand it’s half of the story…

  • King Kong

    King Kong

    ★★★★

    This is one of the first few movies I vividly remember seeing. It came out in the ‘05 Holiday season, while I was in kindergarten, but I can’t remember if they showed it to us later that spring once it got to DVD or the following school year when we hit 1st grade. Regardless, watching it is one of those core film memories I have that I’m still very fond of. We were in our ghetto ass cafeteria after lunch…

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