Samiel

Samiel

Favorite films

  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • The New World
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Blade Runner

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  • Oppenheimer

    ★★★★

  • The Tree of Life

    ★★★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★

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  • Eyes Wide Shut

    Eyes Wide Shut

    ★★★★★

    Much has been said about Stanley Kubrick's 1999 swan song masterpiece 'Eyes Wide Shut,' which was initially met with a second lowest critical reception of his work post 60s (oddly enough The Shining is the lowest, and is a common choice from people for their favorite of his), but hardly any imagined that a quarter of a century later, the film would establish itself as one of the most stunning kaleidoscopic nightmares of its time—with a following of people who…

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    ★★★★★

    Entirely possible this is just the greatest film of all time

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  • Shame

    Shame

    ★★★★★

    Shame (2011) Dir. Steve McQueen:
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    “We’re not bad people. We just come from a bad place.”
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    Shame,” is a quiet, emotionally deep film filled to the brim with gloomy colors and realistic themes. Tackling themes of sex is already challenging enough, tackling a theme of sex addiction is oh so much harder. So the question would be, how can McQueen tackle something that’s hard to relate to? Well, the answer lies simply in the…

  • Macbeth

    Macbeth

    ★★★★½

    This is a movie that provides Shakespeare's unparalleled writing skills with some of the most stunning imagery ever put to screen. Truly the most justice a Shakespeare play will ever receive.

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