Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022

  ★½ Rewatched 25 Mar 2025

  “How is never as important as why”

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Unbridled Lynchian surrealism bordering the absurd

  Art lives through the artist, who losses a part of themselves with each piece.

Popular reviews

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  The Iron Claw 2023

  ★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2023

  A fine film about a father’s inability to prioritize family over his ambition, through the perspective of his second oldest son.

  Colour grading and soundtrack are fitting.

  The film posits fine themes but the uninspired writing and poor characterization prevent the film from delivering on its most emotionally impactful beats.

  I understand the intention of the ‘family curse’ but I think stronger characterization would have allowed the writer to play with the protagonist’s darkest moments

  the film also glossed over…

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  The Substance 2024

  ★★★ Watched 05 Oct 2024

  It’s ironic that the most obnoxiously male gaze film is directed by a french woman

  No doubt that is the point of the film, it relentless beats the viewer over the head with its themes in the most uninteresting ways - I don’t know how this won Cannes best screenplay, it is intellectually devoid and problematic paint by numbers storytelling through the script’s midpoint

  Stylized sound design, elevated the grotesque and the comedic

  Some of the body horror elements are…