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  About Dry Grasses 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Sep 2023 2

  Another super long meticulous examination into the resident asshole. Ceylan's now done this three times in a row and here I am, suckered in by the man's craft and the depth of the world and characters he crafts with extensive dialogue scenes. The intriguing thing about this one is that Samet isn't just an asshole like his brethren are in Winter Sleep and The Wild Pear Tree, he also becomes a piece of shit, with how far he let's his…

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  Monster 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Sep 2023

  I didn't like Kore-eda's previous film Broker, so I'm very happy to say I loved Monster. The film begins with a patient set up, which gradually builds up more and more intense as the single mother of one son finds out that her boy has some problems at school. She takes the obviously concerned route most parents would, but someone's lying to her and it's incredibly frustrating because there's no closure and peace until someone comes out with what actually…

Recent reviews

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  Femme 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Sep 2023

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

  I think the film to an extent does itself a disservice packaging itself as a revenge story because ultimately it's not one. A desire for revenge is a driving force Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) who after his drag performance is brutally beaten by Preston (George McKay).

  The two make a change encounter at a gay sauna some months later and Jules is simultaneously triggered while curious considering he correctly clocked Preston as gay before he went ahead and committed a hate…

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  Heroic 2023

  ★★½ Watched 20 Sep 2023 2

  Starts strong, but doesn't go anywhere. The beginning is interesting because the sergeants hazing does not begin physically abusive, but instead the senior one picks the film's lead as his favorite. He begins making favors for him, getting him out of the initiation for example and it seems like he's being a good guy, but his actions are unnerving because they feel completely insincere. His favoritism immediately made me think that it's another mind game, which purpose is to make…

Popular reviews

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2022 148

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

  I kept waiting for something drastic. I thought the film was building towards something explosive. I thought the father might walk out and never come back. I thought he might die and that's why the need to recollect, the need to see in between the lines, to see what wasn't explicitly expressed. I thought we'd get an answer, but we don't. We know he's gone, but why or how is never explained. The two go back home from the vacation…

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Feb 2023 5

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

  The biggest thing that surprised me was that even knowing the story, the ending still frustrated me and I think that's intentional. On the first watch it was a case of me not understanding the film fully until reflecting on it for hours and honestly weeks as well. This time around the credits rolled and I was feeling a deep feeling of desperation, a yearning for a dramatic catharsis, which never happens and I think that's intentional. I think Wells…