Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dìdi (弟弟) 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  plane movies are typically terrible experiences for me but this wasn’t so bad. could have been more fleshed out and better executed but deeply relatable and visually very pretty !

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  Song of the Sea 2014

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Mar 2025

  made me expel a tear from my eye with so much force that my contact lens came flying out. i will always love this movie

Popular reviews

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  flow attempts to tell a compelling story about the importance of empathy & cooperation in a chaotic, rapidly changing environment … and falls entirely flat.

  despite taking place in a world seemingly void of people, zilbalodis somehow manages to create a film that is the epitome of human hubris.

  the pretense of the film is a cheap allusion to climate change. an ensemble of animals that we have domesticated or ripped away from their respective corners of the earth & held captive…

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  La La Land 2016

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jan 2025

  this started playing randomly on the tv at my grandma’s house … left midway through to make a trip to the convenience store & then came back to finish it. la la land you could never make me hate you