Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  ★★ Watched 06 May 2022

  Shot of Rachel McAdams being violently attacked by spirits was straight up Shot on iPhone’s 0.5x lens

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  Notes on a Scandal 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 26 May 2020

  Looooooooooooooooongest sip of tea I’ve ever had.

Popular reviews

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  A Sun 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Apr 2020

  I think there’s something to be said about films that stay with you, whose effect on you intensifies the further away you are from having finished it. 

  When the Chen family is hit by a double-whammy in the form of their younger son’s imprisonment and the subsequent death of another of its members, it’s made to confront its idiosyncrasies and reconsider the family values on which it built its former existence. Ultimately, the process of discovering a “new normal” after…

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  Happy Together 1997

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 May 2020

  Happy Together’s particularity comes from the fact that it makes no concessions in its (lack of) definition of homosexual relationships. 

  Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong about making a film that’s distinctly “homosexual”. It’s just that I think we’ve come far enough as a society for our narrative focus to shift away from the archetypal— ie: protagonists’ fear of discovery, their sexual awakening followed by a coming out story, and the triumph of love in the face of societal…

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