Adam Patron

Favorite films

  • Kids Return
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Lift
  • The Hidden Fortress

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  • The Philadelphia Story

    ★★★½

  • My Brother's Wedding

    ★★★★

  • The Lady from Shanghai

    ★★★★

  • The Stranger

    ★★★½

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The Philadelphia Story

1940

★★★½ Watched

Having Hepburn, Grant AND Stewart in one film and handing them this script has to be a crime. Especially because Mankiewicz is producing it, it’s like they are just teasing you with a better writer associated with the project. Also this is part of a really weird sub genre of comedy throughout the 30s and 40s which was really anti divorce, and the plot doesn’t try and hide that notion, but surprisingly seeing three acting titans be funny on screen does distract you from that for the most part.

My Brother's Wedding

1983

★★★★ Watched

“Nobody told me that everybody was going to school to be the same thing.”

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Yuki's Sun

1972

★★ Watched

saw this on MUBI front page, 4 minutes, why not. Animation is cool, shows Miyazaki has had talent for such a long time, but there's really not much else to say.

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

★★★★ Watched

Scorsese delivers perhaps his greatest film of the 21st century, for me only the Departed can challenge that notion. I wasn’t expecting the Freemasons to play such an integral role in this film, I didn’t know much about the story before going into this, but I knew that De Niro’s character was the architect of the mass killings.

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