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Favorite films

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Spirited Away
  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  • The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

All
  • The Invitation

    ★★★½

  • In the Heights

    ★★★

  • Better Man

    ★★★½

  • Rear Window

    ★★★★

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Oppenheimer

2023

★★★★ Watched

Really funny to have such a serious movie punctuated by constant grand cameo face reveals.

Northanger Abbey

2007

★★★ Watched

A tough one to rate. The story is delightful, as usual with Austen's. Mr Tilney is a rare breed - a period drama hero who is actually kind, mature and lighthearted, acted with charm by JJ Field.
Other aspects of the movies aren't that great though. The whole affair is directed like a made for tv movie. Also, holy moly is Cathy dumb. A true annoying idiot. I sometimes reminded myself that she's supposed to be a teenager- and one…

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

1997

★★½ Watched

Apparently I'm in the minority here, but damn that felt pretentious and quite empty.
I usually am a sucker for bizarre movies that turn into gigantic psychological mindfucks, but that one wasn't grounded on anything else than the very simple, very much already done over and over concept of "I am a teenage boy and I don't know what to do with my desires/hate for women/myself".
One of my main problems was also that the theme could still have worked…

Man Bites Dog

1992

★★★½ Added

Joker who? This is the superior weliveinasociety™ movie.

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