Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Seven Samurai 1954

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Mar 2025

  A little hopium please?

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  The Karate Kid 1984

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Feb 2025

  (i can not emphasize this enough) Fuck JD Vance.
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Popular reviews

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  Ikiru 1952

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Sep 2023

  I'm in shock. The music at the end is what got me crying. Profoundly beautiful and spiritually haunting. Where all of Kurosawa's movie up to this point flew by, this movie is LONG. Not in a painfully slow way, but in the same way that a car crash, a breakup phone call, or a swim in a class IV rapid is slow. There's this Pierre line in War and Peace "for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and…

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  Casablanca 1942

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Nov 2024

  Ah a movie about a hopeful, brokenhearted man reliving his heartbreak against the looming crawl of Fascism. On election night? What could go wrong?

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