Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  David Attenborough documentaries be like

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  Oldboy 2003

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  “Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone.“

Popular reviews

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  Sankofa 1993

  ★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2023

  Strands of afro-pessimistic thought capture the things that feel flawed about this film. The lives of African-Americans aren’t caricatures or postcolonial texts – the construction of blackness is as synonymous with the experience of African-Americans as it is by ontological connectedness with Africa.

  Whilst the film attempts to invoke agency and empowerment, false agency is also an easy narrative plot hole to fall into. Perhaps sitting within the context of thirty years ago, centring pan-Africanist narratives of slavery would be…

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  No Other Land 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  An essential inside look into the ongoing land dispossession in the West Bank.