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vellaem
Toronto, Canada
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About Me

I try to consume as much fiction, film, and gimlets as life will allow.

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Monsieur Lazhar

Full of pathos and adorable children.

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Goodfellas

Goodfellas

The-celebration

The Celebration

Happiness

Happiness

The-steel-helmet

The Steel Helmet

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Style

  • Serene & subtle
  • Deliriously surreal
  • Canonical classics
  • Other-worldly

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David M.K.

17Jan12

You gave Todd Haynes' Safe ONE star? What the hell? Of all the people I know on this site, your ratings are the most perplexing to me. Four for Easy A, but one for Safe. I can't parse this data.

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    vellaem

    18Jan12

    Safe was pretentious disconnection-porn. "I'm Julianne Moore, so emotionally disconnected from everyone that modern life gives me undocumented, unprovable allergies." Whereas Easy A is the best comedy of the decade thus far.

David M.K.

19Aug11

You gave Fantastic Four ONE star, but then you saw the sequel (which you also gave one star)? Are you a masochist or what? If they make a dozen more Fantastic Four movies, will you see them all?

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    20Aug11

    For the first one, I went out on a limb. The second one I was drinking. I saw them years apart, but I recently rated them as they were added to mubi. However there is a vast quality difference between the two films despite the similar rating. The second film was far, far worse. No I won't watch another. Am I masochist? Some days, maybe.

David M.K.

26Apr11

I can't even say how much I hate Tucci and Clarkson for being in it. They were unquestionably the most embarrassing part of a film which offered a surfeit of humiliations, minor and major, to choose from.

David M.K.

26Apr11

FOUR STARS for 'Easy A'? I just watched it, and I was a bit upset that I have to give it one star to indicate that I've seen it. Horrible, horrible film. (Even given its limited ambitions and ADHD target demographic.)

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Irina Palm

Irina Palm

This is an extended, cruel practical joke, having Marianne Faithfull whack scores of guys off in the name of AHRRT. It’s the masturbatory fantasy of a baby boomer 30 years late. Moreover, it’s cruel…  read review

Green Zone

Green Zone

In the same spirit of a ripped-from-the-headlines episode “Law and Order: SUV,” Matt Damon navigates a Valerie Plame-like conspiracy involving the Bush administration and CIA agents. There is a Nouri…  read review

Identity

Identity

In Adaptation Charlie Kaufman’s twin brother (played by Nicholas Cage) is writing a screenplay with an idiotic twist that makes no logical…  read review

Two-Lane Blacktop

Two-Lane Blacktop

Though it might have been too late to the decade party, I take Two-Lane Blacktop as what 60s nostalgia-trippers and film critics want everyone to see in   read review

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Monsieur Lazhar

Monsieur Lazhar

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
A Dangerous Method

A Dangerous Method

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
Melancholia

Melancholia

  • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
The Guard

The Guard

  • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.