Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Drive My Car 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 25 Dec 2023

  What a wonderful movie to watch at the end of the year. The credits only appear after an elongated prelude, as most of this film is about making peace with the past and learning to let go of such a large part of yourself. It contemplates releasing elements of control as Kafuku allows others to read his dialogue, interpret his story, and finish his wife's secret stories... he finds scattered pieces of the answer he was looking for, but a…

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  Knightriders 1981

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Dec 2023

  “One of these days the blackbirds are gonna get me.”
  
  This movie is a little too long, a little too repetitive with its cinematography and choreography, but it goes to great lengths to sell you on the familial connections made by this cosplaying motorcycle troop, and it succeeds in hitting hard for those who value a found family. Each member has joined ‘our little Camelot’ for a different reason, and along the way they face the threats of police disruption,…

Recent reviews

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  After the Storm 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  You know, it doesn't matter if you don't grow up who you wanted to be. What matters is to live your life trying to become who you wanted to.

  All parents fail their kids.
  I used to know a guy a lot like Ryota. It was difficult looking into the mind of a deadbeat dad who's going through a divorce, when what I most remember about him was how fun he was to be around. If you always live your life making excuses for the past or taking risks for the future, you find yourself not really living in the present. Keep dreaming I guess

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  No Other Land 2024

  Watched 20 Mar 2025

  I'm filming you.

Popular reviews

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  Her 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Nov 2020 1

  Love... A concept that cannot be described by one person. An idea that you must feel for yourself to truly understand... One that we can only try to explain through our infinite forms of communication, television, books, art. And I think "Her" does a pretty great job.

  This movie attempts to bring us closer to an understanding of the word love through the intricacies of Theodore's life. His divorce, his dating attempts, through his friends marriage, and his newfound love in the…

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  Monster 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  We Need to Talk About Kevin meets Rashomon meets Moonlight. The emotional and tonal pivot that happens in act three completely reinvents this movie. Ryuichi Sakamoto is a god. Let the kids be.