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Favorite films

  • Leave No Trace
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • City of God
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★½

  • Fargo

    ★★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    ★★★★½

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  • Leave No Trace

    Leave No Trace

    ★★★★★

    I was not ready for what this film did to me. In the beginning it was just the smile it put on my face from how innocent and precious it’s presentation and storytelling were and how beautiful Tom and Will’s chemistry was.

    “A lot of people like to imagine they could live the way you guys were living.”

    That was when this still rang true. But by the time the credits rolled I was bawling my eyes out uncontrollably.

    What…

  • Jojo Rabbit

    Jojo Rabbit

    ★★★★★

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

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  • The Dead Don't Die

    The Dead Don't Die

    ★★½

    Massive respect for sticking with the deadpan delivery zombie movie thing all the way through, but the gimmick really started to wear off after about an hour.

    Wouldn’t have expected Jim Jarmusch to be the first director to give Tom Waits an utterly boring and forgettable role.

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★★

    The first minute of this film is such a perfect melting together of score and sound design, experiencing it the for first time will forever be a core memory

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  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★½

    I‘m still buzzing and it feels like my head is spinning two hours after walking out of the theater. I can’t yet get my thoughts in Order but I want to write something at least, because Challengers was the most thrilling and infectious experience I‘ve had in the theater in a long time.


    To my surprise, what made Challengers so great is almost the polar opposite of what I loved so much about Guadagnino‘s other films, Bones & All in particular.…

  • Life After Life

    Life After Life

    ★★★★★

    Life After Life is one of the most consequentially heart-breaking things I have ever seen.
    But even though it is relentless in it‘s portrayal, it never gets too overwhelming or feels overdone. Even though the themes where pretty clear, it‘s unusual if not supernatural concept kept the show unpredictable and tense throughout and I never quite gave up hoping that everything might work out in the end.

    The first episode starts a bit slow, but takes time to introduce the…