Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Outrun 2024

  ★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Don't actually have much to say about this but Yun insists so here goes.

  Saoirse Ronan gives a very moving and effecting performance as Rona, it's also an incredibly nice looking and sounding film, but as a whole I felt somewhat disengaged from the the narrative (which is in huge parts down to my own narrative preferences). As a whole I felt there wasn't quite enough of any of the particular elements of the film for it to be really…

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  The Watermelon Woman 1996

  Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  Once the novelty has worn off this is a very not good movie on basically all technical levels but it is extremely endearing and I'm incredibly glad it was made.

  Also some truly enviable fits on display.

Popular reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★½ Watched 23 Jul 2023 2

  Not to be a hater but.......
  The writing in this film sucks. Thematically this feels like a movie that came out in 2012. The pacing was awful. It really didn't feel like there was any actual tension or narrative highs, yanno.
  And what's the point of hiring all these huge comedic actors and not really giving them any lines?

  The costumes and sets were mostly cute and fun but even that lost it's appeal down the line.
  Like I wanted to like this, particularly as someone who does kinda enjoy the culture around dolls (if only form a distance) but alas....

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  Messiah of Evil 1973

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Jul 2022

  This movie rules. Persistently eerie and disorienting. The paintings in the house weren't very good but they did consistently confuse me, I kept thinking someone was gonna use the escalators. A lot of really fun scenes, the movie theatre in particular was a favourite.
  The thing I liked most about this movie was how light and shadow were used. The night scenes in particular were lit in a manner that it felt nothing outside the town existed, but very many…

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