Mohamed Heikal

Favorite films

  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Once Upon a Time in America
  • Whisper of the Heart
  • Aftersun

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  • Sinners

    ★★★½

  • San Andreas

    ★★★

  • Meg 2: The Trench

    ★★½

  • Sleepless in Seattle

    ★★★★

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Gladiator II

2024

★★★ Watched

Like most Sequels, Completely unnecessary and repetitive.

Close-Up

1990

★★★★ Liked Watched

One of Kiarostami's best movies, I did not expect much watching this movie but I got surprised by what I watched. Is it cinema? Is it real life? or something in between? It does not really matter because it's all seamlessly blended in. The movie follows Hossain who is a cinephile and being discontent with his life or job and since he's always dreamt of being in the movie business, He impersonated his favorite director trying to live the life…

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2046

2004

★★★ Watched

Despite having all the elements that made its prequel “in the mood for love” a great emotional movie, it just didn’t click for me. It feels like those elements are just glued together which made me fail to connect with the characters at the same level of the previous film. I love Wong Kar-Wai and I still enjoyed some of the film aspects but I expected a lot more from this film.

Fallen Angels

1995

★★★ Watched

Aesthetically pleasing, good atmosphere and camera work but deeply lacking in characters and story, a great film to look at but somehow feels empty.

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