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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  cardinal benitez was NOT getting spooked as the dolls would say

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  We Live in Time 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  nothing like the miracle of birth in a gas station toilet to bring you to tears

Popular reviews

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  A Touch of Fever 1993

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2024

  i often think about being something unreal. 

  at all times, it does appear tatsuru is in a constant state of dissociation. as a young sex worker, he has to separate himself from his body, an object to be paid for, used and discarded. from the outside looking in, he’s a good student, a polite young man but does anyone really see his internal turmoil? those eyes tell of a never ending, insufferable storm within. 

  i want to prove… i want…

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  Monster 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Jan 2024

  “if only some people can have it, that's not happiness. that's just nonsense. happiness is something anyone can have“.

  kore-eda has such an unmatched sensibility for his depiction of innocence and youth. 

  i spent much of the movie tense and nervous, somewhat foreshadowing an impending doom or the revelation of the supposed ‘monster’. as each narrative played out, puzzle pieces began falling in place; yet, the grand picture remained obscured from visibility. 

  as the story unfolded, there was a prevailing…

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