Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Treasure Planet 2002

  ★★★ Watched 21 Dec 2023

  Watched this again since a LOT of ppl kept revisiting this and i never actually had any connection with this movie when i was a kid? And this is coming from someone who still rewatched atlantis from time to time despite the flaws it had. After watching this i do see the appeal, the characters and victorian-space theme that everyone keeps obsessing over TILL THIS DAY. I also LOVE how it looks, how it sounds (James Newton Howard everyone!), well…

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Dec 2023

  Probably watched this at the best possible time which is RIGHT after finals so i most definitely bawled my eyes out over this. Despite the hardships you have to go through, you still find yourself coming back with so many reasons to live and that message from this movie struck so true to me after going through this year being aimless. There's something so raw and powerful with Miyazaki's protagonist when the story is about battling with they're inner conflict…

Popular reviews

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  Suzume 2022

  ★★ Watched 24 Apr 2023

  So much potential but unfortunately failed to reach it with the awful screenplay it has. I knew that the story centers on grief over lost ones due to disaster but it was very hard to figure out suzume's character honestly if only they established her emotional struggles of losing her mother and her hometown first but they just immediately went with the "boy meets girl" without us knowing who suzume truly was as an individual so it became inconsistent? There's…

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  What's Up with Cinta? 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2021

  “The goal of this poetry writing competition which we held annually is to remind us of the one of a kind treasure that is so priceless, and that’s the Indonesian language.”

  
  My expectations were high but WOW i can see why this has deeply engraved Indonesia’s pop culture and cinema. Set during the early stages reformation era, popular girl shares a bond over poetries with outsider guy and rediscover her true self beyond her facade while juggling through youth struggles. This movie wouldn’t…