Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  First Cow 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  I want Orion Lee to read me a bedtime story

  Such a sensible little movie, filled to the brim with emotions and beauty. What a start. What an ending. 

  Also weirdly the second cow-centered film I watch this month

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  Battle Royale 2000

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Honestly ? Banger. 
  I can’t see where a lot of aesthetics and concepts of “battle royal”-media like hunger games and such comes from

Popular reviews

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  1001 Frames 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  Berlinale 2025 #11 
  Iranian cinema strikes again. 
  A film with a very simple form that builds to something we already know is coming. A reality for women everywhere, and here we can’t turn away from it. 
  The film concept is plain but subtile: a camera, an actress and a voice that becomes more and more invasive as the “audition” goes on. I especially liked the ending that gave a hope for the industry in the form of a meta resolution: We held our breath and now we can breath again. Maybe it will get better. 

  Jin Jîyan Azadî

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  Dreams in Nightmares 2024

  ★½ Watched 17 Feb 2025 1

  Berlinale 2025 #7 

  I would never have thought it to be excruciatingly painful for me to sit through a movie with three black queer woman as protagonists going on a roadtrip through America to find their estranged non-binary friend. 

  Every scenes were painfully long, useless, badly written and awkward. The movie tries so hard to be radical and fails by being purposeless and plain boring. The acting was over the top on one hand and too stiff on the other.…