Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004

  ★★ Rewatched 10 Sep 2024

  Cringey, emotionally confused unpleasantness. And loads of bad fonts.

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  Bad Lieutenant 1992

  ★★★ Watched 01 Jul 2024

  Keitel is incredible but even he can't fully redeem a film that, despite its captivating boisterousness and fascinating levels of degradation, is (much like the titular character) a confused mess.

Popular reviews

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★ Watched 15 Oct 2023

  I have heard many people talk about this film's 'timely discussion of complex themes' but, for me, rather than interrogate or engage with the incredibly difficult issue of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the film gives a very surface-level discussion that ultimately simply reinforces the mainstream American line that these attacks were necessary evils.

  Nolanites will object that the film is not attempting to examine these themes, saying rather that it portrays Oppenheimer's subjective experience of this process. This…

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  Exhuma 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Feb 2024

  I saw this in a packed cinema on opening night in Seoul and it was a great experience.

  The film delivers fully on a pure entertainment level by seamlessly blending multiple genre elements to create something that is part buddy cop caper, part guys-on-a-mission movie, part occult horror flick, and part detective procedural.

  At a deeper level though, 파묘/Exhuma deals with themes such as the painful history of Japanese colonialsm and familial, multi-generational trauma. These ideas are artfully and creatively…

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