Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Joint Security Area 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  the framing device of the investigation is so good in theory but the movie instantly becomes way more interesting when it basically abandons it halfway through?? loved the MGS2-esque segment and all time banger of an ending shot though…

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  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Feb 2025

  nothing to say that hasn’t been already said (by myself and others)… even more beautiful on da big screen baby!!!

Popular reviews

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  Watching the Pain of Others 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2021

  wowow i’m sorry this is gonna be another long one!!

  there’s a moment towards the end of the movie where the director makes a comment about how she had no idea what touched her so intimately about penny lane’s original documentary and i feel exactly the same way about this, but mostly because it touched me in so many different ways

  i had a feeling it was going to be about morgellons before the movie even came out and said…

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★ Watched 23 Sep 2024 4

  ACTUAL REVIEW ATTEMPT: insane how little of this resonated with me as a person with moderate-to-severe gender issues who taught themselves how to be a semi-normal human being via the media they were obsessed with (same exact thing happened with world’s fair so actually idk why i’m surprised 😐)? the lack of any kind of sophisticated execution or complexity in approach actually drives me kinda insane considering the topic… like wouldn’t it be crazy if a person was lit so that…

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