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  Decision to Leave 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Sep 2023

  In Park Chan-wook's arguably most innocent yet equally heart-wrenching film the cat-and-mouse game of a Hitchcockian thriller collides with the poignant tragedy of a Wong Kar-wai romance drama.

  The silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock seldom looms as distinctly identifiable as an inspiration behind Park's works as in this film, whether on a purely technical level with Hitchcockian shifts between close-ups and wide shots, point-of-view shots, and the close (up) focus on eyes, or structurally with a familiarly dizzying premise influenced heavily…

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  Satantango 1994

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Jul 2021 4

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  Today: Satantango

  „It's a pitch black world view - depressing, gripping - dramatizing the break-up of the Soviet state, but it could easily have been the survival after an atomic catastrophe, the third world war or another apocalyptic event, the mood would be the same.“
  (The Two Cineasts)

  Hi everybody, as always, Béla Tarr certainly doesn't make it easy for us to follow his films and, in this case, even persevere. This film…

Recent reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 21 Jul 2023

  Oppenheimer tells a possibly dull subject in an engaging way, similar to the most gripping political thrillers, all thanks to Nolan's distinctive approach. If presented linearly, these 3 hours would seem like 6, but the multiple layers compress it into seemingly 1 ½ hours. While it might be challenging for those without prior knowledge, individuals with even a slight interest in Oppenheimer's persona, historical context, and the political backdrop of that era will find it enjoyable, as the subject matter goes well beyond Oppenheimer alone, adding to its fascination.

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  🔙 Barbie

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 20 Jul 2023 2

  I feel like this character development rubbed off on me in the theater, and I underwent a transformation. Now I am kenough for myself. Now I feel the kenergy!

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  🔙 Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Popular reviews

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  Taxi Driver 1976

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Oct 2019 41

  "When I first was writing the script I thought it was about loneliness. What I learned while writing the script is this was about a man who suffered from the pathology of loneliness, he wasn't only by nature he was lonely as a defense mechanism and he reinforced his own loneliness by his own behavior and the pathology grew until it became malignant and violent."
  (Screenwriter Paul Schrader)

  
  AN INDIVIDUALS FIGHT AGAINST LONELINESS - SCORSESE'S DARK MASTERPIECE OF URBAN ALIENATION IS DISTURBING, POWERFUL, AND REMAINS RELEVANT

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  Unforgiven 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Jun 2019 13

  "I swore I would never be involved in a picture with this much violence in it. But the more I read it and the more I came to understand the purpose of the film, the more fascinated I became."
  (Gene Hackman)

  
  BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN HEROISM AND VILLAINY, "UNFORGIVEN" SHATTERS THE MYTH OF "THE OLD WEST"