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  No Other Land 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  the thing, honestly, that struck me the most about this film was the imagery of it all, and i know that this is probably a wanky cinephile way to phrase it, but.

  the "HITACHI" on the bulldozer that destroys a home, or a school. it reminds you that people couldn't get away with this without multinational corporations willing to turn a blind eye

  the mother of a girl who looks more like a grandmother. the unspeakable loss, death, and destruction…

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  The Colors Within 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  it was a good film, i just didn't expect it to be catholic!

  there was a lot about naoko yamada's the colours within that i deeply enjoyed. a lot of her works have this deeply beautiful style of animation and i know this is a kind of common thing to point out but it's so simple yet very very pretty. noticed this especially in a couple of scenes at snowfall which were just gorgeous. i also really liked the way…

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★½ Watched 14 Aug 2024

  MIFF #4*
  
  didn't really do much for me, i'll be honest.

  i knew this was a film about being transgender, and i went in with that expectation, and well, that it certainly is. if anything i thought the symbolism was a bit on the nose, but that's not bad.

  as it is, it's not really that i thought i saw the tv glow was missing anything. it is what it is, i can totally imagine this having a really big…

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★½ Watched 22 Jan 2025

  what a mess.

  i feel weird about this film. it would be generous to say that it has a plot, or characters, or any sort of emotional heft, or indeed any point to it. but at the same time i really want to recommend it. i won't, because it is uh. not great. but at times i really loved it.

  the only comparison i can think of is megalopolis -- or at least, what i thought that film would be.…