Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  20th Century Women 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  mike mills has a beautiful relationship with grief

• 

  Beginners 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  “our good fortune allowed us to feel a sadness our parents never had time for” deep cut

Popular reviews

• 

  Tampopo 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched 21 Jan 2025

  a love letter to food as more than nourishment; food as art, culture, connection, kink, passion, purpose, death, medicine, community. all of this expressed through a japanese spaghetti western. i can only imagine bourdain loved this movie.

• 

  The Big Sick 2017

  ★★ Watched 09 Jan 2025

  as much as i want to give this movie an unserious review, i (unfortunately) can’t shut up about the asian american diaspora so here i go: 

  obviously, i want to like this movie. it has all the familiar ingredients a brown, first-gen, ex-religious, child of immigrants wants to consume. watching kumail fall in love with his white girlfriend’s quirky family after a series of stifling dinners with his strict parents hit embarrassingly close to home. but after shaking off the…

Following