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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Another great work by Bong Joon Ho, and felt much like his masterpiece Parasite in many ways. A well-built concept, with remarkable performances across the board. Incredible production design and another beautiful score by Jung Jaeil.

  The screenplay structures itself around Mickey’s narration for a bit, giving you a history of himself and the sort of “how I got here” plot line. This exposition takes place for quite a bit. Then the plot is structured around the two Mickeys– which…

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Quite a different piece by Guadagnino. A bit unexpected, yet alluring and abstract.

  The story demanded more patience than I was expecting, but not through the entire film. It pulls you in, initially, seeing Lee's interactions in the 1950s Mexican setting– but his complex relationship with Allerton takes its time to develop and understand. In recurring scenes of the two drinking and smoking, I started to feel a growing lack of plot development that begins to feel necessary by that…

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★½ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2019

  ★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025 3

  First Godzilla film I've ever seen– kinda got thrown into it suddenly, but it got me interested in some of the world-building.

  Overall, what mostly stood out to me most was visual effects, a few frame compositions, and some of the vivid color grading. The computer-generated animation was very intense– between Ghidorah and Godzilla waking up, and the fight between all of the monsters. The design of Mothra broke up the dark visuals beautifully.

  However, the writing was subpar and…

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