Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Flow 2024

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  meow 🐱

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  The Hand 2020

  Watched 22 Feb 2025

  Wong Kar Wai remains oscillating between sensual and horny… still a beautiful way to spend 1 hour

  Was surprised most of this was in Mandarin and not Cantonese…feeling good about my comprehension  level, but not sure the significance 

  Watched on Criterion

Popular reviews

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 26 Jan 2025

  I suppose I had my reservations about seeing this assuming a 4 hour long movie starring Adrien Brody as a modernist architect would be a pretentious load of bull crap.

  The first half made me feel pretty optimistic that I’d be wrong — surprisingly sensitive, poetic and funny. The second half devolved into the nonsense I feared it would be. The epilogue (at “the first architecture biennale” ) felt like one of the most disrespectful ways a director could treat…

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  Girls Will Be Girls 2024

  Watched 16 Sep 2024

  What an incredibly sensitive, complex, sweet film. It’s a coming of age movie, but it definitely hits different coming from the angle of high schoolers discovering romance at an Indian boarding school.

  The ways we understand and approach romance and are able give and receive love are so influenced by our parents. This movie does a really good job showing how frustrating that can be when it feels like an inescapable burden — one that keeps getting in the way…

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