Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mommy 2014

  ★★★★ Watched 05 May 2024

  sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, i don’t know why

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  Sometimes I Think About Dying 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 May 2024

  maybe im gna shoot a short clip opening with an extended montage showing how fucking drab i find this life is so that when im gone the people who come to collect my things can figure out that i have levitated and flown away to be far from all the bullshit daily small talks and social gatherings and eventually landed in a cloudy forest where my peacefully dead body can be found surrounded by the lovely humidity; and it’s not…

Popular reviews

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  Thor: Love and Thunder 2022

  ★ Watched 08 Jul 2022

  Came to the theatre with zero expectations and still, it was painful to sit through the whole film. You see, the problem w Marvel here is that it doesn't know what it should be: a brand stemming from children's entertainment that will remain loyal to the spirits of its sources of materials, or a thought-provoking one tackling much more solemn topics. Hence, this confusion results in these tonally disastrous films we've got lately.

  All I saw today was a cheap…

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  Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Aug 2023

  Initially, how the camera stationary kept the distance from the characters and the diegetic world constantly reminded me of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Boys from Fengkuei (Asian slow cinema is still my cinematic blindspot, and I have only watched Fengkuei and Cocoon). Ân's patient observation of ordinary people going in and out of a frame while the camera remained static urged me to estimate the ASL. Tired of counting the time of each shot and the number of frame in frame,…