Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Memories of Matsuko 2006

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2024

  at first, i was almost taken a bit back by this movie having a very digital look to it, but it doesn't take long for the movie to become so endlessly colorful and creative with its visuals that i sort of forgot about that pretty much immediately. the movie has this quite fairy tale adjacent structure to the story, and i find the look comes to amplify that feeling. the musical numbers, her silly smile, the small animated flourishes, all…

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  Lady Vengeance 2005

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Feb 2024

  ever since i first watched this movie, i think almost exactly 2 years ago now, it's had a strangely strong place in my memory, and i finally decided i just had to rewatch it to confirm what i was thinking. doing so just solidified everything i'd been thinking for these past 2 years; this is park chan-wook's greatest masterpiece.

  where the first two movies in the vengeance trilogy i feel are much more straightforward with how bleak and miserable they…

Recent reviews

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  Wolf Man 2025

  ★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  kinda mesmerized by how they managed to cast a kid for the intro that looks like a child version of both chris abbott and julia garner.

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  Attack Force 2006

  ★ Watched 15 Feb 2025

  boring even by steven seagal standards, yet it ends on something as rare as steven having a non-onesided fight against someone. the fact that said someone is a woman and said fight is a bizarrely choreographed slapfight that goes on for a good 5 minutes only makes it better.

Popular reviews

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  Cloud 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Dec 2024

  few things are as effective on me as making use of the stylistic choices of horror within other genres. something like junji ito's cat diary where it's used for comedy, or what kiyoshi kurosawa himself previously did with tokyo sonata where it serves to amplify the drama. so it goes without a saying that when he decides to do it again with cloud, but instead for the type of strange action thriller that only he could make, i'm all in.…

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  Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 2024

  ★ Watched 29 Jul 2024

  a condensed form of everything that has defined the past 100 episodes of seed; nothing but a very poor attempt to redo things better gundam entries already did. agnes especially is such a laughably blatant attempt to copy reccoa. i'm quite surprised by the low quality of the animation, movies usually come with the expectation of markedly improved animation, but here it feels barely on par with what you see in contemporary tv anime mecha anime, if not worse. i…