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Favorite films

  • Fukuoka
  • Vengeance Is Mine
  • For One More Hour With You
  • Le Cercle Rouge

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  • The Revenant

    ★★★

  • Requiem for a Dream

    ★★½

  • I'm Still Here

    ★½

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    ★★★★

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  • Squid Game

    Squid Game

    ★★½

    danganronpa + salò for entry level soc dems

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    ★★½

    barbie is just as confusing as aloha, but at least aloha THRIVES in the confusion

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    perceiving familial conflict as simply stemming from the unit itself rather than the multitude of elements around it that actively contribute to it - is as reductive as storytelling in this nature can possibly be. and by chance with this film, having a “multiverse” to help contemplate on this idea only hurts that thesis even more, presenting artificially manufactured elements that one, as a storyteller, can manipulate to their own wishes in order to remedy the real-world conflict that’s presented….even…

  • Minari

    Minari

    ★★

    it's as though the film actively wants to be a microcosm for immigrant families deep within the capitalistic setting of the United States, and while i find this admirable in its concept, the execution here leaves a lot to be desired and it becomes quite a mess in its intention.

    quite a bit feels tactile in this particular depiction, providing a connection that i can identify with - yet there's also a good amount that's left up to artificial storytelling…