Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Babygirl 2024

  ★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  Fifty Shades of Greyhound

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★ Watched 30 Jan 2025

  Human beings were originally round organisms .... But the spherical creatures grew overambitious ... so Zeus chopped each of them in two. As a result everyone must now go through life in search of the one and only other person who can round him out again.
  — Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

  There is a deep ambiguity saturating Queer. We have on one side William Lee (Lee), a womanizer for men if there is one, tough, macho, his exterior seemed…

Popular reviews

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  Falling in Love Like in Movies 2023

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Dec 2023

  One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
  Mine own, I would say: but if mine, then yours;
  And so all yours.
  — Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

  Sejujurnya, kalau menjadi dewasa berarti menyadari supermarket adalah tempat terbaik untuk pacaran dan Sederhana adalah restoran terenak untuk perayaan, maka silahkan sebut aku umur 40-an.

  Tapi paling tidak sebelum waktu itu datang, ada film ini, alat yang kata Bagus "bisa membuat kita memahami perasaan orang lain." Sebuah hiperbola, mungkin iya,…

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  A Brother and 7 Siblings 2024

  ★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2025

  Yandy Laurens latest is a return to form for the director. Just like his debut Keluarga Cemara, 1 Kakak 7 Ponakan is also adapted from Arswendo Atmowiloto's work. The subject matter is an Indonesian classic: a family struggling to keep up with economic demands. 1K7P reads like a classic sinetron too, with an incredibly altruistic protagonist fighting against all odds to keep their hodgepodge family afloat.

  The haphazardness is so pointed, especially when we consider the fact that the "7…