Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  She's All That 1999

  ★★½ Watched 14 Jul 2022

  Most random cast of all time. And for what?!

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  Our Love Story 2016

  ★★ Watched 24 Apr 2021

  2 hours and 38 minutes of abject suffering. Yoon-ju deserved better.

Popular reviews

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  The Watermelon Woman 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Jul 2020

  Lights, camera, metafiction! I'm not always a fan of the director appearing in their creation (Hamilton is better without Lin Manuel as the lead, don't @ me), but I LOVED seeing Cheryl Dunbar bring a fictionalized version of herself to life on screen. There are so many important themes here- intergenerational memory, historical preservation and representation, microaggressions in interracial relationships, white academia and cultural criticism, and racial profiling, to name a few- but the seriousness of these underlying messages is…

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