Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Decision to Leave 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Jan 2025

  “Wise people like water, benevolent people like mountains. I am not benevolent. I like the sea.”

  I’m more and more convinced this may be the best movie of the 2020’s. Certainly the most well shot and edited movie.

  A visual poem about the mountain and the sea. It’s amazing how many layers are packed into every frame. Every color you can find in any given shot tells a story. The music, the focus, the camera movement - everything is done so meticulously to tell an incredibly layered, beautiful, tragic story of love and longing.

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  Godzilla 2014

  ★★★½ Rewatched 11 Dec 2024

  Pretty poor script tbh but fuck yeah big monsters. Gareth Edwards does scale so well.

Popular reviews

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  Riceboy Sleeps 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Jul 2023 2

  Was scrolling through Crave when I stumbled upon Riceboy Sleeps; a Korean/Canadian film that I had never heard of before but after a quick google, I saw it absolutely killed in its festival run.

  A hauntingly mesmerizing story of the strength and sacrifices of a single mother, boyhood, belonging, learning, loving, and the unbreakable bond between mother and son. Every choice director Anthony Shim and cinematographer Christopher Lew make with the camera is jaw dropping, telling its own story within…

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  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 May 2023

  Easily the best MCU addition since Endgame and probably a top 5 all time MCU movie. I almost can’t believe how well everyone’s story concluded. Maybe the bar is so low with the MCU these days that I subconsciously expected a let down, but my (star)lord this has to be one of the best conclusions to a trilogy I have ever seen. 

  That cgi raccoon and his freak friends are so damn special

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