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Recent reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  This reminded me of Levinas’ idea that epistemology should be grounded in ethics.

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  Inkwo for When the Starving Return 2024

  ★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  A lot of telling not a lot of showing.

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

  ★½ Watched 28 Nov 2020

  Sometimes I see people say about a terrible movie, “I wish could’ve enjoyed this movie. I really tried.”

  I feel the exact opposite. This movie gave me one of the richest feelings of hathos (feelings of pleasure derived from hatred) that I’ve ever had. Had it been any better, it would have made the experience worse.

  I don’t believe have I seen such a level of cinematic cowardice ever before in my life. I didn’t love The Last Jedi. I didn’t…

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  Possession 1981

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Oct 2023

  The physicality of this film asks us to ponder flesh in its conflict with soul. As we age, society demands that we put aside the questions of true reality that drive us mad in our adolescence, questions of “what is” not just practical questions like “what shall we do.” Mark is called a child for thinking of the dog’s experience of death, but numbing ourselves in the present leads us to explosiveness in the future when we realize that we…

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