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  • Blue Velvet

    ★★★★½

  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • Emilia Pérez

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown 2024

    ★★★★★ Watched 24 Dec 2024

    “How does it feel?”

    Timothée Chalamet fades into the character of a man who sought to be something more than face value. “Whatever it is they don’t want me to be.”

    “Open your ears man!”

    Update: my review of one of the year’s best!

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu 2024

    ★★★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2024

    The night is dark and full of terrors.

    Hauntingly intoxicating and even, somehow, sexy. Eggers wants a visceral reaction from us in many ways. Orlok is a crazed freak fest on his own amongst subliminal freaks.

    Death & love is coming for us all.

    Update: my review via TCS.

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  • Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet 1986

    ★★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2025

    “It’s a strange world, isn’t it?”

    Yes it is Sandy.

    Rest easy David. You and your miraculous body of work will be missed deeply. Wherever you are, have your flowers sir.

    Side note: first Lynch film so I feel like a degenerate watching this after his untimely departure, but I’ll forever thank my college film classes for keeping Lynch locked into my brain all these years.

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist 2024

    ★★★★½ Watched 16 Jan 2025

    Do we serve ourselves, or others?

    What do we want to leave behind?

    Is seeking greatness worth the price one pays in the end?

    An American tragedy, and yet, a triumph all the same.

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  • The Iron Claw

    The Iron Claw 2023

    ★★★★★ Watched 13 Dec 2023

    Utterly powerful. Emotionally breathtaking, and beautiful. Damaging to the soul.

    My favorite of the year.

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain 2024

    ★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2025

    A Real (son of a bitch is) Pain.

    We’re either David or Benji.

    How do we honor those who came before? How do we deal with whatever pain comes our way? To find peace we inevitably have to confront it, inside or out.

    This film, or clips of it, should be shown in schools, touching on such human issues and handling them in a way that’s brilliant, but not overshadowing how it makes one feel in an all encompassing way. The pain and grief of the leads aren’t entirely in your face, but once they feel as such, the circle back feels well worth it.

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