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The Age of Adaline (2015) by Lee Toland Krieger – Review
What comes to mind whenever I watch The Age of Adaline is the idea of perfection. What does it mean to be perfect? Is it to stay young and beautiful? Or maybe wise and elegant? Blake Lively as Adaline is all of these things. However, she is far from perfect. She never gets old and
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017) by Denis Villeneuve – Review
One of the first things that come to mind when I think about Blade Runner 2049 is how visually enchanting it can be. Not just the costumes, the sets and the award wining visual effects. The cinematography is what truly steals my attention. Blue and orange, white and grey, these are the colors that fill
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The Boy and the Heron (2023) by Hayao Miyazaki – Review
Once I finished watching the Academy Award-winning film The Boy and the Heron, I had to refrain myself from immediately watching it again. That’s how good it is. It is a fantastical story which is loosely based on Hayao Miyazaki’s own life. The whole movie shows how one person manages to build a plethora of
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Requiem for a Dream (2000) by Darren Aronofsky – Review
I consider Darren Aronofsky’s directorial aesthetic as something unprecedented for world cinema. He is indeed an intense filmmaker who is famous for how tough his shots and scenes are. I believe that he is the perfect director to portray a difficult (and objectively everyday) problem such as drug addiction. This film does just that, accompanied
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006) by David Frankel – Review
The Devil Wears Prada is a perfect feel-good film. When you feel that you need to watch something to lift your spirits, this is usually on everyone’s list, and for good reason. From a stellar cast (Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci) to the plot itself, this is a movie that has
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) by Yorgos Lanthimos – Review
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness was one of the most highly anticipated films of the year. With the film season at an end, a film with such an impressive cast (Emma Stone, Jesse Plemmons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley and Hong Chau) and director would certainly attract a lot of interest and attention. But even so,
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) by Elia Kazan – Review
A Streetcar Named Desire holds a special place in my heart. It was one of the first movies that I saw that resided outside of mainstream cinema. Looking back at it now, watching Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh at fifteen years old, not knowing who they actually were seems surreal. However, no matter how much
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975) by Sidney Lumet – Review
For our second and last entry for Pride Month, I thought it was very important to refer to this film. Although it isn’t considered as a LGBTQ+ production, I decided to analyze this film for two reasons. Firstly, it was considered unusual and groundbreaking for its time (1975). It was unheard of to produce a
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God’s Own Country (2017) by Francis Lee – Review
For Pride Month, I could think of no better film to analyze than God’s Own Country. Although there is a plethora of films to talk about this period, I chose this particular one for two reasons: how real and heartwarming it can be. Love is always a complicated matter. Sometimes you can find it in
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Civil War (2024) by Alex Garland – Review
What is frightening about Civil War, is how believable it is. There is something enticing and horrific about a Western nation (like the United States), at war. It makes sense, since the world is both fascinated and tired of the messiness of U.S. politics. It reminds us that there is never a shortage of disappointment
