Roman Volobuev

Favorite films

  • Seven Samurai
  • Touch of Evil
  • Deadly Circuit
  • My Friend Ivan Lapshin

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  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

  • Eva Doesn't Sleep

  • The Servant

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

Watched

Mission 7 was my second favourite, after De Palma’s one. And what made it so good was how wrapped up it was in its own crazy logic — or philosophy, or whatever. Felt like a backseat ride with the world’s best racer who’s gone mad.

This one’s very much the same — except now the man behind the wheel keeps turning back to explain why he’s making a left turn and then driving us through a wall. Gets very ADHD.…

Final Destination Bloodlines

2025

Liked Watched

Went to see it instead of those two Losey/Pinter films waiting at home, and I’m not — even marginally — ashamed.

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Disclaimer

2024

2

It’s uncanny how every shot here has Cuarón’s fingerprints all over it, but they comprise something so banal it hurts. Is Apple TV holding his family hostage or what?

Architecton

2024

Watched

The parts about rocks are nice. But 20-plus minutes of Michele De Lucchi blabbering about how we should all live closer to the earth while strolling around his 16th-century estate, paid for by deg office lamps and Deutsche Bank buildings, makes you want to a left-wing militant group.