Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992

  ★★★★ Watched 30 May 2023

  🎵 How, how can love die? 🎵

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  The Son 2022

  ★½ Watched 17 May 2023

  Oh wow, this is absolutely terrible. Whatever happened to Florian Zeller between The Father and this?

Popular reviews

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  Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush 2022

  ★★½ Watched 13 Feb 2022 2

  For what it's worth, this is the movie I'll recommend to my grandma when she asks if I've seen anything good at this year's Berlinale.

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  Dune 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Sep 2021 2

  "Sweat and tears."

  Terrific to see something so utterly committed to itself, especially when there's this much money involved. The biggest problem of the 1984 film was that it mistook Herbert's book for the quintessential science fiction text it's still made out to be i.e. for an uplifting adventure about a Boy who becomes a God when really it's a dire, convoluted and gloom-ridden meditation on power and religious fanaticism that's not at all interested in the awe of exploring…