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a lot to like here and having just finished andor gives new appreciation for some of it and highlights its flaws at the same time (and the amount of disney stink on it) but i cannot rate it higher on principle because of the ghoulish digital necromancy on display

a lot of fun, alex wolff very funny, needed more chloë sevigny

theres nothing else like it

predictable but incredibly sexy and cool, hell yea/10

right from the immediate numb/encore needledrop before the title card even appears you know this is gonna be an all timer

i would like to drink a beer with him

i love to watch beautiful people walk around a beautiful european town, restaurant scene gave me red rooms vibes

every time i watch a kurosawa film i haven't seen before i'm like no this is my favourite one

we waited for the train, and it never came

i think people’s problems with this is that, despite appearances, it’s haneke’s most optimistic film

genuinely life affirming movie, the world is beautiful and we are lucky to live in it, yes even new jersey

petty men with petty squabbles ruined by the alienation of both internet and capitalism. a sequel to pulse in a way but also a course correction of what he could have never predicted in that film. the world won't end because of the isolation of the internet, it will be destroyed by that isolation becoming a community of bitter men lashing out at whatever they can. takes a wild swing in the 3rd act which genuinely delighted me. kiyoshi kurosawa stays undefeated

haneke has a gift for subtlety and nuance like no other director, the things left unsaid, unseen, ‘hidden’ cut through to the bone

when you’re living on the edge of the apocalypse everything is normal and justifiable, it’s easy to ignore your kids sharp objecting the rest of the town, on 28 June 1914 they assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

have said this many times before but god movies used to be cool

only caught the last half when my flatmate was watching it, it had some jokes at least, patti harrison is always incredible, ayo edebiri be in a good movie challenge

yep that’s me ass movie

i feel that bong joon ho thinks american audiences are blithering idiots and while he’s not wrong it doesn’t make for a particularly good movie when he tries to cater for those morons

i want to suck his dick so bad

I want LONGER and SLOWER movies with LESS PLOT and LOWER BUDGETS made by directors with A SINGULAR VISION and I’m NOT KIDDING

tender, poignant, and beautiful, just what i expect from wim

from a film making standpoint this is really good, the way it brings you into this family's life and home, makes you feel for them, it creates a sense of closeness, and loss, that is emotionally powerful. there's a lot of talk about torres' performance which is phenomenal, but not enough has been said about how wonderful the kids are in this especially the two eldest. despite this i left feeling pretty frustrated with the film as a whole, and while i understand this is an individual story about specific people i just couldn't help but feel that politically this felt rather toothless. there's no interrogation of the dictatorship or rubens and his comrades brave acts of resistance, with no connection to the wider political struggle against a brutal dictatorship firmly ed by washington and the western world. it's just like, this is a thing that happened to this (rich, bourgeois) family, feel sad about it. it even basically skips the entirety of eunice's long fight for the truth about what happened to him with not one but two (!) shoehorned timejumps that don't really work apart from for emotional blackmail. this is all probably a bit unfair and i might need to rewatch and rethink this but i think salles has spent too long making movies for american audiences.

maybe i’m just feeling incredible vulnerable today but this sent me spiralling tbh

hope they didn’t miss her ears

the irish countryside always looks beautiful, lovely to hear gaelic used effectively, tense and horrible, get's a bit silly in parts and doesn't quite come together at the end but altogether a solid debut

really fun and looks great, neville is a great addition to the “guy who is stupid and sucks” canon

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i knew there was something about peter falk now it all makes sense

very funny then quietly incredibly devastating, sometimes we're just so tired

what a horrible film to see on the big screen

it’s been said so many times but you shouldn’t eat spaghetti like that

forgot how plot centric cat killing was

i watched this for the first time when i was 13 or 14 and its forever been my impression of what america is really like (and i’m right)

movies used to be cool

sad, strange, wonderful

why did no one tell me burial did the soundtrack???

bonnie prince billy??

this rips, that movie theatre scene is so good

unfortunately the phrase "messiah of emails" is bouncing around my head and i have to get it out somehow

incredibly tender and heartfelt, mike leigh does it again

incredibly grim, just like england

sidenote: this the second mike leigh film i’ve watched recently where i can immediately pin point the exact location of the grimy london flat at the centre of it

basically the nucleus of everything lynch made after this, like a tree branching outwards you can see all his work expanding from lumberton

the kind of film that makes you want to peel your skin off, probably have a permanent furrow in my brow from this rewatch, basically hyperventilated during that scene. in other words the film of the decade.

will never be an eggers hater like so many people want me to be this was great

just fantastic

one of my all time favs, there’s nothing like it

probably a perfect film, adds so much on a rewatch, also much funnier than i

i think they drove past my house at one point

best film of last year imo

gonna rewatch some of my favourites from last year this month, even more incredible the second time round, paid a lot more attention to the score this time round, absolutely beautiful

watched on the big screen for the first time at the prince charles. proof that psychoanalysis makes you evil.

really competent in what it’s intending to do, felt like a lot was left unsaid but also was very effective in blurring the lines between jude laws cop and hoults nazi. obviously copaganda, but enjoyable copaganda at that

just caught the last third of this on tv reminding me its an all timer

yeah it's still really good

obviously charming, but a deeply reactionary, almost fascist, film. also deeply offensive to my people, the welsh, rhys ifans should be ashamed of himself

only caught the last third but god this goes so hard

norbot should have been beaten with lead pipe the first time gromit saw him, i do not like the way wallace treats the dog

watched this after cooking christmas dinner for my flatmates, a delightful evening!

uk release dates, not ranked

• The Beast
• Red Rooms
• Evil Does Not Exist
• Hoard
• Love Lies Bleeding
• Monster
• The Zone of Interest
• Perfect Days
• I Saw the TV Glow
• La Chimera

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