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Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Dead Poets Society
  • The Prestige

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  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

    ★★★½

  • Monster

    ★★★★★

  • Pieta

    ½

  • Airplane!

    ★★★

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Thunderbolts*

2025

★★★★½ Liked 8

The MCU might actually be backThunderbolts* is, without a doubt, the best MCU film released since Avengers: Endgame (maybe alongside Spider-Man: No Way Home).

Thunderbolts* addresses themes like mental health, depression, loneliness, and trauma like no other MCU film before. As I’ve already said in other reviews, I love super heroes who are flawed (which the Thunderbolts certainly are), because somehow, you can see yourself a bit in them and their problems. Some moments and crash outs were relatable to me…

Avengers: Endgame

2019

★★★★★ Liked 4

“Avengers… assemble.“

It took me three days to write this review because it was incredibly difficult for me to collect my thoughts. I have a ton to say about this film and the MCU, but I try to keep it as concise as possible (though it won’t work). Now that I’ve finished the Infinity Saga, I’d like to say that I genuinely love these silly little films, each for different reasons — even if I rated some of them very…

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

2004

★★★½ Watched

I‘m doing a little Wes Anderson marathon, watching films I haven’t seen yet, and then I’ll probably watch The Phoenician Scheme next week. 

Wes Anderson films always have a very special feeling. While I don’t love all of them, I can always appreciate what makes them special. They always feel like a warm hug and are something of a safe place, because you always know what to expect. Somehow, that’s incredibly comforting. Even when the themes and moments are sometimes…

Monster

2023

★★★★★ Liked 11

I won’t be able to write this without minor spoilers, but I’ll try my best to express myself without giving too much away. All I can say is that this was one of the best films I’ve seen this year. I genuinely loved it, and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it yet. 

“If only some people can have it, that's not happiness. That's just nonsense. Happiness is something anyone can have.”

Monster tells a story from…

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Little Miss Sunshine

2006

★★★★★ Liked 12

“You do what you love, and fuck the rest.”

A perfect film to watch after a bad or exhausting day. It’s such a heartfelt film that perfectly balances deep moments with fun ones, while also exploring very relatable themes — which is why it brings me so much comfort.

The characters are all memorable and written with a lot of depth. They’re flawed but also deeply relatable — they really seem like a real family: There are many dysfunctional dynamics,…

The Big Lebowski

1998

★★★★ Liked Watched

It’s just so funny to me that Jeff Bridges (The Dude) also plays the villain in the first Iron Man film — because The Dude is also the inspiration of Thor’s look in Endgame. And we also know that The Big Lebowski exists in the MCU, since Tony is mentions it in Endgame. So my question: How do they explain that The Dude and Obadiah Stane look exactly the same in the MCU? 😭

Anyway, this film really reminded me…