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  Where Is My Friend's House? 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched by Mika Perzyna 02 May 2021 2

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

  Abbas Kiarostami's Where Is The Friend's House? is a masterful tragedy of the mundane. Babek Ahmed Poor delivers one of the greatest child performances I've seen as Ahmed, a boy who accidentally took home his classmate's notebook and spends the day attempting to get it back to him. The stakes are perfectly established in the first scene. If the classmate doesn't have his homework done in his notebook by tomorrow's class, the teacher will expel him. What follows is a…

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  Jaws 1975

  ★★★★★ Watched by Mika Perzyna 30 Apr 2021

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

  This really is the perfect blockbuster. Disney might throw hundreds of millions of dollars at their films every year, but they still don't deliver half the thrills that this movie from almost half a century ago does. Jaws, much like a lot of early blockbusters, especially ones with the name Spielberg attached, feels equally like a piece of New Hollywood cinema as it does like a popcorn flick. The masterful manipulation of the audience's emotions feels effortless, with the first…

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  Wings of Desire 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched by Mika Perzyna 26 Jun 2022

  Perhaps the truest depiction of the human experience ever.

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  Elvis 2022

  ★★★ Watched by Mika Perzyna 27 Jun 2022

  I'm so glad Luhrmann keeps getting to do his thing on big budgets with massive actors, but man this still isn't my cup of tea. The first act is cool, but as all of Baz's films I've seen, it eventually loses me. In my view Marty's approach works best for 3-hour biopics that capture the chaotic, drug-fueled energy of a guy's career and their eventual fall from grace.

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  Psycho 1960

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Mika Perzyna 03 Oct 2020

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  There haven't been many positives to this pandemic thus far, but it has been great to see drive-ins make an unexpected comeback. And, God damn, was it awesome to see Hitchcock's classic in a drive-in cinema in 2020. I remember reading Scorsese's op-ed about Marvel films and being really jealous because of how he described his experience of seeing Psycho in a cinema all the way back in 1960. Last night, I finally got to have a similar experience and…

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  The Batman 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched by Mika Perzyna 03 Mar 2022

  This has gotta be Greig Fraser's best work yet. The whole thing looks so goddamn cool and stylish, which is fucking rare for a blockbuster these days. And the Arkham vibes are strong as hell. For once, "this movie looks like a video game cutscene" isn't an insult. Speaking of pros outdoing themselves, we've known for a year and a half now that Michael Giacchino's score would go hard and it really didn't disappoint. I expect to find myself listening to this thing a lot in the weeks to come.

  Robert Pattison and Zoë Kravitz hot.