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Favorite films

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • The Sting
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Christine

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  • Wild at Heart

    ★★★★

  • A Moment of Innocence

    ★★★★★

  • May December

    ★★★½

  • The Zone of Interest

    ★½

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  • Dick Tracy

    Dick Tracy

    ★★★★★

    Dick Tracy just jams that jam, brother. It's what would happen if Angels With Dirty Faces was bitten by a radioactive peacock, and I couldn't love it harder if I tried.

    An endless parade of bombastic splatter color, ostentatious production and razor-sharp hard lights that never stops never stopping. The entire visual spectrum of this film - costumes, sets, lighting, cinematography, makeup, hairstyling - is so intensely and cohesively overdone, so explosively creative, that it actualy ends up becoming larger…

  • My Name Is Nobody

    My Name Is Nobody

    ★★★★★

    A last "Addio!" to the West from Leone, through the hands of his pupil (the very underrated) Tonino Valerii. Despite not directing it, it is clear that his vision was very important to this picture. Not only did the idea for the story come from him, but there is a great usage of the Western iconography he created, and a recreation of his directorial and visual style.

    But, at the same time, it lets it be clear that the days…

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  • Wild at Heart

    Wild at Heart

    ★★★★

    The name "Bobby Peru" and its consequences have been disastrous for the seriousness of this film in front of any Brazilian audiences. And "Lula" too. This has layers.

  • A Moment of Innocence

    A Moment of Innocence

    ★★★★★

    The joys of understated comedy.

    This may be a dramatic picture at its core, and has all the makings of classic poetic reflection; yet, its most remarkable asset, its greatest triumph, is the mordant irony it gives to the musings of its characters. Mohsen Makhmalbaf both treasures and laughs at his own innocence, at his simplistic and narrow view of what could "change the world", and at the officer's blind and earnest chase for a lost love that was never…

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  • The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

    The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

    ★★★

    They had a fish speakeasy, but with music instead of booze. Magnificent.

  • Nope

    Nope

    ★★★★★

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

    I love the flying saucer. It's one of my favorite icons of classic Science-Fiction, if not my favorite. There's something so magnificent and so unsettling about that enormous circular shape hovering on the air, defying our known laws of science. It feels wrong, dangerous, forbidden. It feels like it shouldn't exist. And if it does, it feels like it's not for our eyes to see. It's a chilling, one of a kind beauty, and it fascinates me. The flying saucer…