Mayer Dastgir

Mayer Dastgir

🎬 Movies are my cardio, and my reviews are the workout gossip for cinematic muscles. 💪🍿

Favorite films

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • The Social Network
  • Pink Flamingos
  • All That Jazz

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  • Three of Us

    ★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • Heretic

    ★★★★★

  • The Idea of You

    ★★★½

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  • Three of Us

    Three of Us

    ★★★★

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

    The burden of guilt the lead character has for being the reason for her sister's death was unfathomable. If u had paid attention to the scene in the park where kids were playing cricket but she has a vision of a small girl playing by the seashore (a post in which she tells her husband that she wants to visit the place), u probably would have gotten the concept of this movie right, which u have apparently missed. She did…

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    Sean may be a Baker, but bro COOKED with this.

    I thought the movie was good and much funnier than I expected however the complaint for me that holds it back from being great is it's pacing. I feel like there is about solid 20 minutes of this movie that can be cut without much loss. Specifically in the 1st and 2nd acts.

    Bit of spoilers if you keep reading.

    In the 1st act I had the feeling eventually where…

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  • The Outrun

    The Outrun

    ★★★★½

    "I study my personal geology my body is a continent,
    I grind my teeth in my sleep like a tectonic plate,
    and when I breathe the sun flickers,
    my breath pushes the cloud across the sky,
    and waves roll into the shores in time with my beating heart,
    the island's headland rises above the sea like my limbs in my bathtub,
    my freckles are famous landmarks,
    and my tears, river,
    lightening strikes every time I sneeze,
    and when I orgasm there is an earthquake."

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    The Shawshank Redemption

    ★★★★★

    I wish I could erase the memory of this film, and watch it again for the 1st time.

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