Andrew Xu

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Favorite films

  • The Fifth Element
  • The Prestige
  • Jurassic Park
  • Coco

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  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

  • The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

  • Companion

    ★★★½

  • Anora

    ★★★★

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★½

    Not your standard musical biopic, A Complete Unknown plays out more like a very small slice of Bob Dylan’s life from his early to mid 20’s. You don’t really get to see his extended life and rather than giving us a full deep dive into his psyche, you’re instead given hints to his character and motivations through which you can connect some dots yourself.

    I like that this tried a bit of a different format with the genre. As a…

  • The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

    I love how in the animation genre you can still see new artistic styles come about. The Wild Robot had this real interesting blend of being really detailed but also stylised and almost painting-like in its style.

    This film was super cute and heartfelt and did quite a bit narratively with its runtime. The voice acting is fantastic and Pedro Pascal is almost unrecognisable as the cheeky sly fox. 

    I like the frankness with which this film dealt with death…

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  • Drops of God

    Drops of God

    ★★★★

    Absolutely loved the premise and the way multiple languages were used for this series. The overall look felt well produced with authentic feeling locations and good cinematography and music. The story was cool and left you wanting to keep watching to find out what happens.

    It seem to have captured the ‘feel’ of a manga quite well, in a way where you’re willing to suspend some disbelief. Both the leads had interesting backgrounds, in particular the backstory of the character…

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★½

    Yeah this was about as average as expected. I came out of that not really thinking it was ‘bad’ per se. But it just felt especially bland and nothing really consequential or interesting happened.

    It’s not only that Chris Evan’s shoes were hard to fill, but also all the Marvel films pre Endgame felt like they had a whole lot more care and polish put into them. Without disparaging the filmmakers too much, the director of Brave New World, Julius…

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