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Recent reviews

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  Sonatine 1993

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  okinawa tax write off feudalism beach filler arc

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  Columbus 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025 1

  i watched the first half of columbus in ottawa, a city i'd never been to, next to someone who lived there until three years ago. i'm sitting on the precipice of leaving my current life for a new city, or choosing to stay out of love for everything i've built.

  in those two short days i was shown around a brutalist campus with tunnels, an art gallery that housed a quiet garden, the corner of an unassuming izakaya, and the…

Popular reviews

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  Summer Qamp 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Sep 2023

  "i may be a high school drop-out, but i know my magnets!!!"

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  Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Apr 2024

  i never really know how to rate movies that emerge out of a country's pain and its peoples' willingness to craft art out of reality. the director noted that no film has come out of madagascar since 1994. in 30 years, the country has witnessed decades of cyclic systemic violence, political repression, and economic instability. razanajaona depicts a boethius-like fable of a young man's odyssey through a homeland he seeks to reclaim.

  this is not a loud or conventionally impressive…