Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  felt like it was a little on the nose and doing a little too much but nevertheless a creative and poignant story. it’s like asimov meets modern american politics and decides to get a little too specific about his story elements.

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  Cinema Paradiso 1988

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  film is the most beautiful thing that humans have made in the past 150 years. i love loving movies.

Popular reviews

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  Mustang 2015

  ★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2021 8

  I saw a lot of clashing reviews from people in Turkey and people who don’t really know about the culture in Turkey. This is by no means a bad movie, but a movie trying to explain the nuances of culture in Turkey and misogyny gets it so wrong and it’s clear that it is catered to Western audiences. 

  There are many things that makes this movie feel so unnatural and distant to history and culture in Turkey. Even the way…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★ Watched 08 Jan 2025 1

  the film before the intermission really excited me: the exploration of othering and “tolerating” (as the movie itself puts it) of immigrants as well as the shallow aloofness of the new found american riches offers a lot to the viewer. initially there is so much to delve into with van buren’s character in regards to the new american bourgeois and how their exploitations expand beyond labor but extend into personhood. he quite literally wanted the essence of toth but not…