Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  unsubtle anticapitalist fun with great performances and extremely loveable creatures. need a creeper plush ASAP !!!!!!!!!

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  Mississippi Burning 1988

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  solid filmmaking, performances and score make me want to rate this higher, but it’s too hard to overlook how much this centres whiteness. it’s obviously in large part due to the age of the film but still it’s hard to justify how voyeuristic the scenes of Black suffering were, and how unrealistic it is that the FBI are the good guys in this story.

Popular reviews

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  I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur 1992

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Dec 2023

  did i really get a lot of what was going on? no. but this was a worthwhile watch nonetheless. the beautiful cinematography, often featuring strong colours that paint the whole frame, paired with the ethereal score produce an eerily otherworldly feel. one of the prettiest films i've seen! (rating not influenced by my lifelong appreciation of ammonites)

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  Suzume 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Apr 2023

  my favourite makoto shinkai film yet. so many emotional and touching themes portrayed effectively through a perfect mixture of reality and fantasy. as always the animation was visually stunning, and this may be one of my favourite soundtracks ever - it fitted the emotional tone so well and felt genuinely moving. i also love that makoto shinkai beat the damsel in distress trope allegations with this one - our female protagonist is certainly no plot device for male characters' development.…