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Recent reviews

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  another tradition i want to start doing yearly on here is a post-awards-season reappraisal of my previous year of watching films, whether that is revisiting movies i feel like i may have underrated because i wasn’t in the right mindset, movies i may have overrated because of some outside factor impacting my experience, or just my favorites that i want to watch and experience again, with the added benefit of confirming whether that movie i loved on a random tuesday…

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  El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  despite some startling shots that looked like they were shot on an iphone, and some scenes where it feels like the script was written minutes before the movie released (mostly in the first act), this was quite entertaining to watch.

  for better and for worse this felt like an extended, overstuffed Breaking Bad episode, with many similar scenes and vibes from the show making a predictable return without much catharsis in terms of fan service for me; but, on the other…

Popular reviews

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  Immaculate 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Apr 2024 2

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

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  no matter the negative contexts going into a movie, i have personally vowed to always 1. open my heart to it before it begins, give it a proper chance and 2. finish it, watch it all the way until the end so that i have a complete understanding of it and so no one can tell me that i missed an important part or twist which kept me from enjoying it.

  this is the first movie that has put that…