Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Stage Fright 1950

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Mar 2024

  Every scene with Marlene was pure delight.

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  Love, Classified 2022

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2024

  Cute, charming, and a little cringe at times. More films like this, please!

Popular reviews

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  Phoenix 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 May 2018 2

  Everything about this was great - the acting, the cinematography, the story, the themes, the music, and a very powerful ending.

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  Manji 1964

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Jul 2020

  Sex. Lies. Blackmail. Betrayal. Suicide.

  Like many films created during the Japanese New Wave period, Masumura's Manji (1964) is a film that depicts characters rebelling against long-established norms through excess - most notably, that of the sexual kind.

  Its four characters (like the four arms of the swastika, Manji) partake in these excesses to varying levels. At the core of the film is Sonoko (Kishida Kyōko) the dissatisfied wife, who falls in love with the single, beautiful and unknowable Mitsuko…