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Favorite films

  • Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy.
  • Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
  • Cleaners
  • Catch Me If You Can

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  • The Holdovers

    ★★★★

  • The Fabelmans

    ★★★★

  • Those Who Wish Me Dead

    ★★★★

  • The Equalizer 3

    ★★½

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  • The Holdovers

    The Holdovers

    ★★★★

    I don't know why I held off watching this for more than a year. I love it. Watched it while drinking hot tea.

  • The Fabelmans

    The Fabelmans

    ★★★★

    This business, it'll rip you apart.

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  • Iska

    Iska

    ★★

    A depressingly defeatist and superficial portrayal of poverty. Matatawag ba na social commentary ang isang pelikula kung non-constructive at non-redemptive ang pagpuna nito sa lipunan?

    Sabi ni Sir Roland Tolentino:

    Sinasabi ng pelikula, walang silbing maging mahirap. Walang silbi ang gobyerno at ang state universities. Walang silbi ang aktibismo. Umuwi at magpakamatay na lang tayo.

    Worse than poverty porn. Which is why I find it amusing that Pamilya Ordinaryo exists in this film's universe.

  • Happy Old Year

    Happy Old Year

    ★★★★

    Underneath my bed is a luggage filled with scraps of paper that are of no use to me – printed reports from my college freshman year, receipts from my favorite café that has closed down a long time ago, and a 3000-word graduation letter from my first girlfriend.

    This absolute monstrosity of a luggage probably weighs half of my body weight. I last opened it a year ago. Its wheels have been crushed by its weight. The only place it…