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Recent reviews

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  Call Her Ganda 2018

  Watched 01 Feb 2025

  i appreciate that this documentary is not covered with the slick of true crime sensationalism (for the most part) and offers apt insights into U.S. imperialism, its enduring legacy in the Philippines, how the State ultimately bends to the feet of the U.S. (which only rings louder knowing that Duterte — who this film unfortunately positions as a nationalist vanguard people can put their faith in — ultimately pardons pemberton after the course of this documentary), and (briefly) how grassroots…

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  All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001

  ★ Watched 29 Jan 2025

  well it’s pretty at times i guess and the keyboard clacking noise is nice

Popular reviews

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★½ Watched 03 Sep 2023

  kuya [to the white guy]: get the google translate OUTTTT omg (not verbatim)

  i’m just gonna copy n paste a text i sent pauline abt my feelings on this movie n call it a review ^_^

  this trains gonna take forever so on past lives: it’s cute n i would recommend it! i think it just didn’t hit for me as much as i thought it would — rlyyyy promising idea (regret, possibility, reflecting on what could’ve been and what…

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  Smile 2022

  ½ Watched 23 Jan 2023

  soon as i saw the second-rate melanie martinez hospital set i knew this movie would go to flames (lol) like what are we trying to even say here… 120 minutes and the messaging could not be more all over the place, misplaced and extremely flat

  edit: originally couldn’t think of anything i liked about it but what i did like was pauline playing with the physics of the movie poster on letterboxd 😭😭😭😭 and also wsu has a degree progress checker??? so useful