Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  So smart! I feel like this is the most serious out of all Miyazaki's films. It seemed a lot more mature as well. I enjoyed it a lot, it felt like the perfect evolution

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  West Beirut 1998

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Nov 2024

  I appreciated the portrayal of domesticity in war and how life still has to move on even under incredibly unfortunate circumstances.
  It turned out to be an unexpectedly fun watch

Popular reviews

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  Closer 2004

  ½ Watched 17 Sep 2022

  What the actual fuck was this??? So crude and gross (and no, constantly talking about sex in very explicit ways with zero respect does not make it more mature (because it seemed that that was what they wanted it to look like)). Treating women as equals? Nah. Thinking that they own them and that they are obliged to whatever they want from them? Yes. Stalking? Sure. Invading someones privacy? Yes. Insulting women and calling them whores, sluts and other degrading…

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  House 1977

  ★★ Rewatched 19 Mar 2022

  This made me feel very uncomfortable. The boob shots were completely unnecessary and when you remember that these are supposed to be high school girls then it just makes you feel sick and unclean.
  The movie shows exactly why we needed (and still need) more female producers. Stop sexualising little girls pls.

  But if we ignore all that, it wasn't completely bad. Considering the time when it was filmed it's pretty good actually. Yes, there is nothing too novel about…