Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 01 Mar 2025

  Okay, maybe I get it now

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  Biutiful 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2025

  Bawling my eyes out at 30,000 meter cruising altitude. Delta Airlines, you have truly done it.

Popular reviews

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  Drive My Car 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2024 1

  “But even if you think you know someone well, even if you love that person deeply, you can’t completely look into that person’s heart. But if you put in enough effort, you should be able to look into your own pretty well… If you really want to look at someone then your only option is to look at yourself squarely and deeply.”

  I hate that Takatsuki delivers what are, to me, this film’s most powerful lines because he is ostensibly…

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  Yeelen 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2024

  A reflection of what African cinema looks like when purely African. Yeelen reminds me of the profound folklore nested within my continent that I am yet to discover. It is a raw, mystifying act that leaves me steepled between admiration and longing. There is a real depth to Nyankoro that I feel was not fully explored, and I wish we got to see Attou as someone fully in control of her life. 
  Nonetheless, Cissé as a director is phenomenal at crafting landscapes that depict both Africa’s beauty and brutality, perhaps even one in the other, perhaps they are one and the same.