Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Menu 2022

  ★★★ Watched 20 Nov 2022

  Reverse Ratatouille

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  Being the Ricardos 2021

  ★½ Watched 06 Jan 2022

  I like how Aaron Sorkin self-reported by having a talentless white man director character who has no flair for physical comedy in this

Popular reviews

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  Peppermint Candy 1999

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Aug 2015 3

  han : a unique Korean cultural trait which has resulted from Korea's more frequent exposure to invasions by overwhelming foreign powers. Described as a "feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined."

  The concept of han was first introduced…

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  Paterson 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Nov 2016 3

  I felt this film hum inside me for hours after the end credits rolled, warming me up from the inside as I walked down Sunset Blvd. at golden hour to get coffee. It didn't let up.

  I’ve tried for a couple days now to think about how to express how and why this film touched me as much as it did, and to do so as simply and elegantly as it did. Alas, I am no poet, so this needlessly…