Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Would have been better without the villainous supercut flashback at the end, like damn, nobody trusts the audience enough to let things be subtle, but I still thought it was p fun

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  Kwaidan 1964

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  A total stunner with a lot to learn from style-wise, but I found the stories pretty challenging in pace, quite stretched out and diluted.

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ½ Rewatched 18 Dec 2023

  On further reflection, I don't think anyone here was necessarily TRYING to make a movie with a reductive, infantilizing take on feminism. I just don't think making a movie with an ideologically cohesive or progressive feminist message was ever a priority.

  The priority was always to make a visual spectacle that made people want to buy more Barbie products (dolls for their kids, dolls for themselves, costumes for opening night, costumes for Halloween). Which is fine, but if that’s the…

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2025

  - I don’t care what anyone says, there shouldn’t have been so many ads and this should have been 100% more beautiful 
  - For how many big feelings are theoretically explored in this story (betrayal, eroticism, obsession) it fell totally flat for me emotionally 
  - Should have been way more hot
  - Should have been way more gay