Tag:reviews
All 32 articles with the tag "reviews".
American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) Review
Materialistic emptiness.
The Character of Rain (Amélie Nothomb, 2000) Review
How do we think before the language?
Vortex (Gaspar Noé, 2021) Review
Fragments of a forgotten love in the silence of senescence.
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003) Review
One of us is the killer.
Laurie Bird (Natural Snow Buildings, 2008) Review
An ode for the alive; a requiem for the dead.
Whatever (Michel Houellebecq, 1994) Review
The programmed loneliness of a liberal society.
Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998) Review
"We all thought you were doomed to fail."
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, 2025) Review
The sequel that makes 28 Weeks Later look like a masterpiece.
Blue Jay (Alex Lehmann, 2016) Review
Scars that never heal.
Anora (Sean Baker, 2024) Review
Love as a transaction.
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024) Review
A dark satire with wasted potential that made me cry of laughter.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Vince Gilligan, 2019) Review
Sometimes it's better to let the viewer's imagination do the talking.
Better Call Saul (Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould, 2015–2022) Review
The winner took it all.
Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009) Review
Dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky.
The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018) Review
"Sometimes, the best way to hide is to not hide at all"
It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012) Review
When the brain decomposes before the heart.
Yume Nikki (Kikiyama, 2004) Review
Wandering in a feverish exhibition of dreams that refuses to be played.
Posted onJuly 31, 2024|Estimated reading time4 min readPost tagsMiss Violence (Alexandros Avranas, 2013) Review
It really is more shocking than Dogtooth.
Demon's Souls (FromSoftware, 2009) Review
A modern iteration of the King's Field franchise.
Posted onJune 17, 2024|Estimated reading time9 min readPost tagsThe Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (Brand New, 2006) Review
The last thing you'll realize you need is what you've already got.
Hyperdrama (Justice, 2024) Review
They are exactly where they want to be.
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997) Review
When the thin line between sanity and delirium gets blurred.
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023) Review
The art of depicting suffering without making it explicit.
The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog, 2020) Review
A game that hurts, but not for the intended reasons.
Posted onMarch 28, 2024|Estimated reading time35 min readPost tagsBarbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023) Review
A postmodern film about the popular plastic doll.
Society of the Snow (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2023) Review
An extraordinary story starring ordinary people.
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023) Review
"Always carve with compassion."
The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988) Review
A hero is capable of terrible deeds.
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023) Review
A gripping biopic of the American Prometheus.
Pathologic 2 (Ice-Pick Lodge, 2019) Review
A Camus-esque interactive story that manages to be more engaging than I ever expected.
Posted onDecember 23, 2023|Estimated reading time40 min readPost tagsTitanfall 2 (Respawn Entertainment, 2016) Review
A symphony of speed and shooting in a futuristic setting.
Posted onNovember 30, 2023|Estimated reading time6 min readPost tagsThe Last of Us (Naughty Dog, 2014) Review
A constant déjà vu.
Posted onNovember 22, 2023|Estimated reading time11 min readPost tags