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Favorite films

  • Arrival
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • The Windshield Wiper

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  • The Nice Guys

    ★★★★★

  • The Electric State

    ★★

  • Gattaca

    ★★★★★

  • The Green Mile

    ★★★★★

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  • The Nice Guys

    The Nice Guys

    ★★★★★

    Ok but Ryan Gosling is hilarious. Most of the jokes in this movie land for me.

  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★★

    As someone who has 2 of Simon Stalenhag's books and has watched Amazon's Tales from the Loop, all I can say is... yikes.

    First off, I can't lie, the art is amazing, they nailed the 3D matte vibe of the world perfectly. I love how nothing in this movie looks shiny or glossy, it all has a muted (even when colorful) look.

    But beside that, everything else about this movie just actively works against me enjoying it. The plot makes…

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  • The Ancestral Home

    The Ancestral Home

    ★½

    Toi thấy có một trào lưu trong phim việt hiện đại, bắt đầu với Trấn Thành, xong bây giờ đến lượt Huỳnh Lập, khi đạo diễn (kiêm writer kiêm producer) tự tin mình có thể tỏa sáng trong vai chính của chính phim của mình nhưng mà lại càng làm nó đã dở vốn đã dở hơn. Tiên và Phát Phì diễn tệ toi không có ý kiến, nhưng cái giọng như đọc sách của ma chính từ đầu đến…

  • Rom

    Rom

    ★★★★

    The first time I saw it, I was underwhelmed by the ending, the lack of payoff and some weird camera angle choices. But later on the more I think about it, the better it gets. This doesn’t feel like a cinematic masterpiece. It is rather the life story of a young thug boy: he has no goal, no dream, no family, nothing other than to make it through the day. When you see it that way, the sudden, anticlimatic ending of the movie just kinda makes sense: it gives you a glimpse into the life of a lost boy.

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