Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  definitely worth seeing in cinema! i mean, it's bong joon ho... there's the familiar humanist/ecological/anti-inequality themes, and a familiar dystopian setting where greedy, PR-minded politicians are funny, until you realize they are Real... a lot of similarity with Severance as well (season 2 omg), but Mickey 17 still felt fresh and quite original -- visuals, acting, tone, humour, structure all doing its part. a bit like watching a miyazaki: you think you know what to expect, but you really don't.

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Feb 2025 1

  Really solid and pretty, but can’t help feeling the story could’ve been so much richer. There’s a lot unsaid and unexplored, and its minimalism works in some ways (pacing, aesthetics, dialogue etc). But between tender hae sung and sometimes-stoic Nora, I just needed more to chew on…

Popular reviews

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  The Way We Are 2008

  ★★★★½ Watched 30 Jul 2017 2

  A flawless exercise in subtlety. One reviewer compared the cinematic experience to eating a bowl of plain congee (a compliment).

  I loved that the mother-son relationship was neither estranged nor unbearably close. Care, love and warmth can be expressed, received and understood in the most minute ways. This movie gave me a new way of seeing “good” and “healthy” family relationships.

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  Love in a Puff 2010

  ★★★★★ Watched 01 Nov 2023

  Love is … going from being acquaintances in the alleyway smoke break to being jealous when the cool cop lights her cigarette as you arrive late; love is running into each other awkwardly at the same 7-11; love is the intoxication of sending and receiving banal texts; changing your phone provider to his but getting rebuffed because it’s too committal; love is taking your time while rushing in helplessly; love is in the things we’re too shy to say out…

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