Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Bad Boys: Ride or Die 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Jun 2024

  Solid comedy-action film

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  Family of Two (A Mother and Son's Story) 2023

  ★★½ Watched 01 Jun 2024

  Maganda yung message and maganda yung ending but I really didn't like the execution and the writing. The big "conflict" in the middle felt like such an overreaction. Alden and Miles have literally no chemistry. They seem more like brother and sister. And it's weird how Miles is the boss when Alden is older. The romance plot was the weakest part of this film.

Popular reviews

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  I Dream in Another Language 2017

  ★★½ Watched 23 May 2020

  I think this review from Slate Magazine captures what made this beautifully-shot film feel so dry to me:

  The two men are one-note characters largely defined by their surliness, and so their feud never registers as more than a screenplay contrivance, a problem just waiting to be solved. This narrative focus frustratingly reduces the intriguing ideas teased in the film’s opening stretch to mere window dressing for a rote story of belated reconciliation that offers no new spin on the…

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  Nine Muses of Star Empire 2012

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Dec 2020

  This feels like the antithesis to BLACKPINK's Light Up The Sky. What happens to other groups from smaller companies that have a debut flop and (not covered in the docu but) never attain mainstream success? This is the reality for the majority of the Kpop groups. And it's good that this docu exists to show the non-success stories.

  I'm surprised how honest and raw this was. Perhaps Star Empire was naive in thinking this docu would boost Nine Muses' popularity…