Jerrymoviefan3 t1_j98a53x wrote on February 20, 2023 at 12:38 AM

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I thought both parts of Ivan The Terrible were great though unlike many experts I prefer the second to the first. Since I thought both Mirror and Stalker were only pretty good but really boring movies I never bothered watching Andrei Rublev. I was on my last day of my free Criterion trial where I was watching the films near the top of the 2012 S&S 100 and my choice was quit now or watch Andrei Rublev and then quit and I proudly picked quit now. At that point I had seen the top 26 in the S&S and while all were good or better Mirror was the worst for me.

AChocolateHouse OP t1_j98d24j wrote on February 20, 2023 at 1:01 AM

If I were you, I'd give Andrei Rublev a chance. I would say it's arguably Tarkovsky's most beautiful film. It's more action packed, lots of battles and deaths, yet deals with a lot of philosophical themes like individualism, mortality, and religion.