Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  A Different Man 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Dimensional film with frustrating characters and plot, in a good way. Somewhat left me cold in the end.

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  Shiva Baby 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I love this kind of awkward humour and the feeling when you know something really awkward is being built. Really annoying characters but they feel realistic. How the drama and tension are raised is brilliant.

Popular reviews

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  My Sailor, My Love 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Apr 2023

  Beautiful visually and storywise. We should have more stories about old people's love. I'm glad it's not only love story but also about problematic parent-child relationships.

  Beautiful, heartbreaking simple and realistic story without being too sentimental in cheesy way. Situations are recognisable and identifyable.

  This is how characters should be written. They are whole characters with their flaws and problems, both lovable and hateble depending in who's point of you watch. Sometimes trauma is too big and the unsaid thing are unreachable after all the time.

  Great that finnish director has had opportunity to make this good international film. Also great, natural acting.

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  Goodbye Soviet Union 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Jul 2020

  Great acting and it's nice to see less familiar faces. The characters are well crafted.
  The story is both glad and sad, tragic and makes you laugh.
  Great story telling, but Eero Ritala's voice over is quite unneccessary.
  Picture of time is built carefully through usage of colours and props.

  I love how the languages sound and how they were used.
  I love the cinematography and how this was filmed.