Max Söderström Patron

Favorite films

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • The Death of Stalin
  • On the Waterfront
  • Hail, Caesar!

All
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    ★★★½

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • The Apprentice

    ★★★

  • The Bikeriders

    ★★½

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The Brutalist

2024

★★ Watched

[Insert joke about how the most brutal thing about it is it's runtime]

While watching it I started to think about how if it wasn't a biopic it wouldn't be very good. How it lacked dramaturgy and sense of purpose, like real life often does, and why life stories are often not translated well to the big screen. Turned out that it wasn't based on real events and instead is just the fantasy of some guy trying really hard to…

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2016

★★★½ Rewatched

Andor made me like Rogue One more and less. More because the character of Andor has a whole new depth and tragedy behind him, less because I wish it would've had the same slow pace as the tv-show.
The duality of man.

Conclave

2024

★★★★ Watched

The biggest problem with with film is that all the cardinals are way too young and sexy for this to be realistic.

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Ghost Ship

1952

★★½ Watched

So the ghost is just a man who hangs out in the engine room and smoke cigars sometimes? I don't really see the problem.

Ash

2025

★½ Watched

Confusing in all the worst ways. Looks terrible, the acting is bad, the music even worse and the story predictable. Yet I am glad that these kinds of films still gets made in the year of our Lord 2025.