Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Jackie 2016

  ★★½ Rewatched 30 Jan 2022 3

  such a p(r)etty little thing. aesthetical rigour and filmic accuracy. it's all so perfect: the material, film stock and footage blending into each other, Portmans accent, even JFK looking like a clone of the former president. perfect lighting, colours, music (Mica Levis score being wonderfully sumptuous). also perfect: the meta-discourse. people only have to say the best about the production (the imdb trivia page is somehow shocking in its utterly positive vibe).

  the perfection and motifs might be the aspects…

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  I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Oct 2018

  typically talkative as romanian cinema is, rather a theatre stage play than a cinematic piece. despite that an immensely intelligent film, where boundaries of reality and fiction are crossed automatically, immersed in the material. highly political, highly important. smart as a whip.

Recent reviews

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  The Courier 2019

  ★½ Watched 26 Sep 2023

  genuinely looks like the filmmakers thought they make something like Drive. little they knew/were aware of.

  Oldman and Moseley are pretty horrible as wannabe psychos. and Olga Kurylenko is the new Milla Jovovich? her histrionics make this career transition just look worse.

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  65 2023

  ★½ Watched 23 Sep 2023

  Kylo Driver took the wrong turn in his career galaxy and ended up with some plain ass dinosaurs. good for him he's the hot shot of the hour and can bury this slip quickly.

Popular reviews

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  Suzume 2022

  ★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2023 2

  you'd think Japan has a problem with earthquakes, tsunamies and volcanoes but it's more like with memory, trauma and gigantic red penises in the sky.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★ Watched 18 Jul 2023 13

  What does a Christopher Nolan do when he tackles a genre - the biopic - that is per definition hard to dissect into narrative trickery and tough to dance with in experimental technomaniacism?

  Oppenheimer is still a very palpable nolanesque film: it's dynamic, jumpy, galvanic, disjointed. Hoyte van Hoytema can at least get a little playful here and there with some fizzy-whizzing abstractions of nuclear reactions and floating star sightings. Ludwig Göransson is giving his best Hans Zimmer impersonation, finding…