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Recent reviews

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  The Colors Within 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  Wow. It’s crazy that we’re all going to be okay. My mind is blown because what I am to you and what you are to me will carry us through anything. You need to tell all of your friends about the waku waku wakusei.

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  One of Them Days 2025

  ★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Keke Palmer is in this movie. Sporadically funny in the middle act but never really overcomes a weak script.

Popular reviews

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  The Colors Within 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2025

  With the disclaimer that I am an unrepentant Yamada stan out of the way I’m thrilled to report that The Colors Within is an achievement. We’re returning to the familiar story material that made this director famous back in 2009 with K-On! but with an aesthetic arsenal that feels like it was developed in the intervening years to make this movie specifically. Kaleidoscopic music, sound, and light making a boldly understated script sing.

  But when I use the term “understated” I also want…

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  Avatar: The Way of Water 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Aug 2024

  Yeah, perfect movie. Five stars. Best thing to exist, etc., etc. It’s the best thing James Cameron has ever done, it’s the best blockbuster of the century, it changed my life, it gets better every time I watch it. I see you.

  Maybe I’ll write a real review one day.