Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Jun 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Hit Man 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 24 May 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  Minari 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2021

  It’s been several months since I watched the movie. It was very difficult to write about Minari soon after I first watched it. As a first generation Korean immigrant living in the US, there were numerous scenes in the movie, which conjured up my memories and emotions. Because everything felt so personal, it was difficult to even write about it.

  Minari felt like a poem. The narrative was simple and the movie was not packed with dense dialogues. Instead, it…

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  Happy Hour 2015

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Jan 2019

  Even though the runtime was 5 hrs, at the end I felt like I was able to watch even more. It’s a long movie but every scene is cleverly shot and very immersivr anf transformative (especially the workshop scenes). I particularly liked scenes where the characters were centered in the middle of the screen and directly talking to the audience. Watched on Mubi.