Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Conformist 1970

  ★★★ Watched 29 Dec 2023

  It feels like there is something essential missing from this movie and I don't know what it is

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  Perfect Blue 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  I haven't seen a movie play with reality nearly as well as this. It's stunning and stressful and compelling, and if satoshi kon's other movies are at this level then I might just become obsessed.

Popular reviews

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  Dune 1984

  ★★ Watched 31 Dec 2022

  I would enjoy this movie more for being hilariously bad if I wasn't already a fan of the book.

  Dune's anti-colonial politics are completely whitewashed and it's environmentalism is basically nonexistent. The book's anti-messianic meaning is also gone, making me question what the point of this movie was.

  Everything that is lifted from the book is included without the necessary set-up, while everything else that was added just seems to waste time. Most of the characters feel like they were…

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  Your Name. 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Dec 2024

  Beautiful movie. Like a dream you don't want to wake up from, a fading memory you desperately want to hold on to. I wish I could put all of the emotions I felt watching this into a small box that I could open at any time. So devestating and human, crying but you don't know why, mourning a loss you don't remember, but the feeling is still there. The desperate need to remember.

  I could sense the movie wavering on whether it wanted to end happily or tragically, I'm glad it ended the way it did.

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