Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Empresses in the Palace 2015

  Watched 22 Mar 2025

  this shit is so fucking good

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  Memories of Murder 2003

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  this is one of the most frustrating watches ever in a good way. the film has such a cruel sense of humour as well as irony. he makes a great case for modernity throughout the film just to spit in our faces in the end. comedy blends into horror into tragedy. there’s something poetic about this film. this is probably bong joon ho’s best work if not solely because it all seems to work.

Popular reviews

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  Hail, Driver! 2020

  ★★½ Watched 22 Dec 2021

  Low-key but very effective and brilliant performances by both leads. Breathtaking cinematography with the black and white really elevating a lot of the early scenes.

  As I say that, the movie really kind of falters after the opening. There are glimpses of a good movie scattered here and there but the movie suffers from a lack of real characterisation and also a thin plot that struggles to move. A lot of interesting themes, like ambition, class struggles, racial differences and…

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  Katatsumori 1994

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Aug 2023 1

  mortality is such a terrifying thing to think about. in this doc, it doesn’t come as an imposing, menacing threat. rather, it comes as an sweet old lady in the twilight of her years. it disarms you with her warm, gentle smile, then slowly, it creeps up on you and delivers a gut punch of reality.

  this made me feel things that i haven’t felt in a long while.