Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Ne Zha 2019

  ★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I cannot overstate how dull and dumb this is.

  — What Could Possibly Go Wrong? —

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  Sugarcane 2024

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Anyone reading my reviews is probably tired of me saying it, but:

  — Religion Ain’t That Great —

Popular reviews

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  Apocalypse Now 1979

  ½ Watched 23 Aug 2021 11

  I hate this movie so much.

  It is so morally bankrupt, it grieves my spirit to think how many people worship this film.

  The Vietnamese people do not use the phrase “The Vietnam War” and instead commonly refer to this conflict as the "Resistance War Against America".

  American filmmakers can (and should) make films about this war. But yes, they definitely should approach the topic with a significant amount of care and nuance. Coppola genuinely did the opposite.

  FFC actually…

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  Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003

  ★ Watched 08 Oct 2021 3

  No. This is not a sublime and mysterious masterpiece.

  This is junk. Cruel junk.

  Seen through the eyes of western cinemagoers, it has been elevated by feverish and fetishy delusions of “Eastern mysticism”.

  Western criticism has a gigantic blindspot when it comes to Asian artists who chose to explore these themes in their work. 

  If this exact film had been made by an American and set in —say— a lake outside of Ashland, Oregon... I would be shocked if it received anywhere near as much acclaim.