super emotionally invested all throughout and i love it, loved that it brings that out for me
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Ang Duyan ng Magiting 2023
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Reductive in places with much needed nuance. Sluggish but still rambling minutes after the point in a scene has already been made.
By design or by accident, makes important characters incompetent, or irrelevant, but ultimately muddles the entire story's synthesis for both its characters and audience. For a film that wants to dispel slippery slopes used against certain ideologies, it may do more harm than good.
A play-by-play of dead-horse political discourse, but after it has…
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Third World Romance 2023
It brings moments that hit genuinely warm for me and then its a gut-punch flurry of misses. Powerful monologues do not cancel out the larger disempowerment of the main character. Give her the damn voice that was actually established in the beginning.
Working class solidarity is minimal and only if it drives the plot, almost never found in places where it matters. It's a bingo of progressive-preaching that the story gladly decimates any importance of after the zingers are done.…
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