Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Unforgiven 2013

  ★★★ Watched 30 Jan 2025

  Not on the level of the original, but that's a lot to ask. Despite some solid performances from Ken Watanabe and Kōichi Satō, it stumbles in its attempts to grapple with the themes of the original. The Hokkaido scenery, however, is exquisitely captured by Norimichi Kasamatsu.

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  Lost in Translation 2003

  ★★ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  Extremely boring. I didn't enjoy the caricatured and borderline racist depiction of Japan and Japanese people at all. The cinematography is nice, though.

Popular reviews

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  Unforgiven 1992

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2023

  "You'd be William Munny out of Missouri, killer of women and children."

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  The Thin Red Line 1998

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 29 Oct 2023

  A masterpiece that holds up every time I re-watch it. Only Malick could make this type of film.