Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  themes and messages were on point (‘I’ll overlook this but just this once’) but was soo put off by the wacky Chinese accents😭😭 I don’t really know what to think about this one but wanna know what happens next

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  Paper Moon 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  feels like a warm hug even though depression-era america is basically a wasteland

Popular reviews

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  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  standing at 2.5 hours, I think that it’s a very strenuous and challenging watch— especially when you factor in the subject matter and a need for historical knowledge as well, and the film feels like an elaborate video essay. If u have that though its amazingggg 

  macro and micro historical narratives (I.e. the broader context of the Cold War) are very well interwoven throughout the story, but it’s also fundamentally people-driven, with the storytelling being done by figures from Khrushchev…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  Just an epic and ambitious piece of storytelling that pulls off a pretty satisfying conclusion despite an intimidating runtime of 3.5 hours (thought I was gonna fall asleep). 

  Corbet tries to cover massive ground, with themes such as the struggle of immigrant families, trauma, the ironic and perpetuated nature of the American Dream, and the obsessed artist. The architecture itself manages to stay center stage in the film and reflect these themes- even through the title itself 

  Part of me feels…