Jenny Xie

Jenny Xie

using this to keep my sanity 

there will be typos

Favorite films

  • The Green Ray
  • Paris Is Burning
  • Yi Yi
  • Millennium Mambo

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  • Juror #2

    ★★★½

  • Matewan

    ★★★★

  • The Black Stallion

    ★★★½

  • Flow

    ★★★★½

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  • Juror #2

    Juror #2

    ★★★½

    solid

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★★½

    Heartbreak after heartbreak !!

    Why was this one of the enigmatic films of 2024 actually 

    Genuinely really stunning, I love how the tens committed to this concept. A film made by cat lovers you can tell in the mannerisms in the way the cat reacts and moves. 

    Is the bird…JESUS ?

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  • Look Back

    Look Back

    ★½

    I was in the mood for a beautiful contemplative tug-on-heartstrings anime where I could feel touched by the beautiful animation and sweet story 

    Instead I was like ??? literally impossible to feel empathy or connection for the characters. OP sucks straight up a mean person lmao and the second lead we hardly get to know before girl is BRUTALLY ax murdered for NO reason

    They could have had her death be from ANY cause with absolutely no impact to the…

  • Love & Pop

    Love & Pop

    ★★★★

    Oh man I need to watch this two more times at least - I’m glad I caught this finally released! After 25 years! Jotting down impressions on the train 

    This film is very very obviously Hideaki Anno anyone who has seen Evangelion can see the clear cinematic throughlines in the camerawork, the dreamscape collaged imagery with echoing narration, even the black screen cards interspersed throughout. The same psychoanalytical self-questioning that unravels throughout Evangelion is here too. 

    I think it’s a…

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