Nyle Rivera Patron

i like liking things

“just shoot it, and it will be beautiful.”

Favorite films

  • Lady Bird
  • West Side Story
  • The Birdcage
  • Magnolia

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  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★★

  • Mountainhead

    ★½

  • Thunderbolts*

    ★★★★

  • The Legend of Ochi

    ★★★

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Sing Sing

2023

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

"We here to become human again, to put on nice clothes and dance around and enjoy the things that is not in our reality."

Sometimes, sharing a movie with somebody special can totally open it up.

Sing Sing is a beautiful and invigorating piece of filmmaking, based in truth and honesty and made with utmost care. It's a film about finding your humanity again in the most dehumanizing place, surrounded by those who must forgive themselves to become who they…

The Last Movie Stars

2022

★★★★★ Liked 1

“I guess that’s the nicest thing; we grew up together. We were kids, and we were idiots and all of that and we grew up together.” 

We really do only get the one life. We only get this one life to make art, to create new art out of thin air, to change the world, to change our world for the better. But we also only get one life to love, and to share it with someone else, despite all of the pain and heartache that inevitably comes with. We only have one life to live and love. Don’t waste that.

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“And now the fate of every living soul on Earth is his responsibility. You must be exhausted.”

A movie that really does carry the weight of the entire world on its shoulders, the risk of nuclear annihilation feels more real in this than it has maybe any other major blockbuster I’ve ever seen. The very nature of truth is put at risk, and the only thing that can really save it is love and the trust people must put into…

Mountainhead

2025

★½ Watched

“Nothing means anything, and everything is funny and cool.”

A movie that makes me hate everyone and everything. As somebody who loves Succession very much, this is a total nothing burger. So many words, so much technical wit for absolutely nothing clever or interesting to be said whatsoever. Armstrong has made a point in interviews that he needed to make this fast so he could keep up with the changing times, so it wouldn’t become stale, but this really could’ve used…

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Hasan Minhaj: The King's Jester

2022

★★★★★ Liked 1

“If I only got 86 likes on a post, I would kill myself.”

New York, New York

1977

★★★★½ Liked Watched

What I don’t think some people get is that Jimmy Doyle is not the protagonist; he's the antagonist, an obstacle for Francine Evans, the film's true protagonist. The film may open and close on Jimmy, but it's Francine's story of success and her finding her own self-respect.

I found the combination of characters from 1970's films and a filmmaking language and approach of 1940's and 50's musicals really compelling, that's some genius shit and I feel it melds pretty well.…