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Recent reviews

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  Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025 1

  Even when stupid, live-action Kenshin is the tits.
  Like previous entries, this one checks the boxes: so much flair, assblasting soundtrack, biggie mood (comparatively overflowing in this department). It's got the flashy sword dancing, staples of good romantic melodrama, etc. But I've gotta cut the shit, this is certainly no Trust and Betrayal—the OVA source material, a feat of poetic animation, oddly neglected by many reviewers here.

  Trust and Betrayal opens on the slaughter of a slave caravan, using unimaginable…

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  The Girl on the Mountain 2022

  ★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Alright [fellow] haters, here's an important exercise:
  Imagine this movie's concept precisely, only every scene is reshot by a crew with dedicated vision¹ (and all dialogue is rehauled by anything from ChatGPT to a literal chimpanzee).
  Imagine a rendition of The Girl On The Mountain where the craft matches the emotional absurdity; blameful overdoses and river dancing; histrionic domestic violence vs. the disgraced conductor of a kiddie orchestra; some dude nearly blowing his brains out next to a sleeping child…

Popular reviews

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  Red Rooms 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Jan 2025 2

  There is something existentially chilling about a wave of human behavior that aligns with the machine—a prioritizing of physical fitness, efficiency, ownership, and image that colonizes our softest desire to be seen. We all wish to be perceived in some way, to some extent, by someone. And when the entire world is gazing at you—millions of artifacted faces serving as your fellow man and your brutal competition—the compulsion to invent a spiritually amputated self becomes heavy for some; how else…

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  Clean 2021

  ★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  New existential question for Hollywood:
  If you're both writer and producer of a giant piece of shit movie, can you really be credited with "carrying it" by taking the lead role as well?