Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Moana 2 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2024

  First movie I’ve seen in a theater in a while and I spent half of it crying and the other half laughing and omg the bat lady 😍

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  Woman of the Hour 2023

  Watched 14 Nov 2024

  Very stressful

Popular reviews

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  Straight Up 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Aug 2020

  Yes!!! A mixed-race asexual protagonist!!! 🤩 But also... wow. I’m feeling so many conflicting emotions right now, we’re gonna have to bullet-point this. 

  The 4-star-or-higher stuff:
  – VISUAL STYLE = Oh my gosh, this movie was beautiful. Even though it had a low-budget feel, the lighting / set decoration / colors were gorgeous. And the cinematography stood out in several places – every shot was visually interesting, and there were a couple of really cool moments, like when a single…

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  Shinjuku Boys 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Jun 2021 1

  I... wow. I don’t really know how to describe how it felt to stumble across this, after spending quite some time puzzling through my gender identity and my Japanese-American identity and starting to come around to the idea that it’s a losing battle to try to pin down either. Like maybe they’re both just a fog that I’m going to wade through forever, bits and pieces of the landscape peeking through and becoming clear at moments, but then getting lost…