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Recent reviews

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  The Astronaut Lovers 2024

  Watched 05 Jan 2025

  Berger’s idea of a romcom—lowkey as expected and quite charming. I like it but being edged for over an hour is admittedly tiring. lol

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  18×2 Beyond Youthful Days 2024

  Watched 05 Jan 2025

  Greg Hsu is so good at playing a loser in love.

Popular reviews

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  Mindanao 2019

  ★★½ Watched 26 Dec 2019 10

  For a film titled Mindanao, it doesn't really dig deep enough to justify it. For much of its runtime, we follow Saima, a muslim mother, as she tries to keep her cancer-stricken daughter alive while her husband fights rebels elsewhere in the island.

  Instead of addressing the root causes of the problems in the region, it is content already in making a weak connection between a local folklore and the events that happen in the film. It is in this…

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  Fan Girl 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2020

  Charlie Dizon is the moment. She is breathtaking. She is everything, a rare find, a true discovery. She carried the whole film on her back like a pro, effortlessly delivering an intricately layered performance as the titular fan girl that not even Paulo Avelino can match her. She is the one.