Karl Delossantos

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A nyc gay with medium movie opinions. 🍅 Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. OFCS. Dorian Awards voter.

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Favorite films

  • The Wedding Banquet
  • Black Christmas
  • Moonstruck
  • Sunset Boulevard

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  • Anora

    ★★★★★

  • Interstellar

    ★★★★★

  • Interstellar

    ★★★★★

  • Wicked

    ★★★★

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  • Hereditary

    Hereditary 2018

    ★★★★★ Watched 13 Jun 2018

    When horror is done right, terrifying, heart-stopping horror, it grabs every one of your senses and makes you hyper-aware of all of them. It lays in wait, biding its time and revealing just enough throughout until the story comes crashing together at the end. It has a grounding in something real and human so that the horror feels even more imminent. Considering that definition, it's not an exaggeration to say that Hereditary is horror done perfectly.

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  • Anora

    Anora 2024

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Dec 2024

    Anora holds up so beautifully on a second watch. Knowing where it ends up adds so much dimension and melancholy to the rest of the movie, especially Igor and Ani’s characters. In the end, it’s a movie about the class divide. Igor sees Anora as kin which is why he empathetically extends her small bits of kindness that she doesn’t understand until the very end when she repays him in the only way she knows how. Riotous and joyful, melancholic and profound. Just the way I like my movies.

  • Interstellar

    Interstellar 2014

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Dec 2024

    10th Anniversary Re-Release in IMAX 70mm at AMC Lincoln Square (AGAIN)

    Okay I know it’s greedy but I had to experience this again. It feels like nothing I’ve ever seen before. The simplicity of blackness and a small dot cruising from left to right in the screen is so overwhelming.

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  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

    ★★★★ Watched 02 May 2022 7

    Don't worry, Sam Raimi fans. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness fully goes horror—jump scares, body horror, a smattering of diabolical kills and all. It's an MCU movie but has Raimi's creepy groovy campy deranged DNA all over it. Start the Elizabeth Olsen Oscar campaign. It's messy, uneven, and ridiculous but also may have made a play to be my favorite MCU movie of all time.

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez 2024

    ★★★★½ Watched 18 May 2024 8

    A trans-musical crime thriller telenovela romance?? Yeah it’s a masterpiece. EMILIA PEREZ is the best of #Cannes so far. An audacious mix of genres and themes that shouldn’t work—probably won’t for many—but I’m in love. Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez: mothers.

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  • Anora
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2024 107 films

  • Anora
  • April
  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  • No Other Land
  • A Real Pain

Fall Festival Season '24 45 films

  • Past Lives
  • A Different Man

movies with scenes set in holiday cocktail lounge in the east village but decorated to be nicer 2 films

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