Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Insiang 1976

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  The cruelty of life clasping down to a near-vicegrip, only for hope to will itself free by its own necessity. Gets to be an excruciating watch during the second act (it really does feel like a three-act structure, one i normally struggle to recognize), but once it all begins to resolve i felt something odd, almost like a begrudging satisfaction, it's hard to put into words as words for it might not yet exist for that emotion. Great soundtrack-editing by…

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  Rejected 2000

  ★★★★ Rewatched 29 Jan 2025 1

  More impressive as animation than as thesis, but that sure is some animation nonetheless. Enjoyed considering the levels of reality/surreality/absurdity within the world of the shorts, and by extension the near-mastery of the in-universe animator's craft. This is fun!!

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Jun 2022

  This film didn't change me. It didn't offend me. It did challenge me, though not to a remarkable extent. What this movie did was so much more powerful though: it healed me.

  I was often a fearful, bordering-on-nihilistic queer in high school and college. Not all the time, but enough to where, if I was at my lowest, nothing felt good or meaningful, at least for me, damn ego. I'm now approaching 26 and I still feel helplessly attached to…

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  Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky 1991

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Jun 2024

  The prison-industrial complex as an exaggeration of reality, yet really not much of a fantasy. What IS a fantasy is the superhero more or less single-handedly solving the problem with basic logical humanity, along with a dose of practical invincibility. But I'd be flat out lying if I were to fault the movie on those grounds; this sort of story captures imaginations and hearts For Good Reason.