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  Longlegs 2024

  Watched 18 Jul 2024

  Hey, watch The Blackcoat's Daughter. 😊

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  28½ 2010

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Jan 2024

  My obsession with Mamoru Oshii's films started almost a decade ago in lockstep with the kick-off of my movie-watching journey. Beginning with a curious dip of the toe, over the next couple years I gradually submersed myself until I was picking at the scraps of his diverse body of work. For a period of time I re-watched the crown of his filmography, Ghost in the Shell, on a constant basis—sometimes multiple times a day, letting it loop on the TV…

Popular reviews

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  The Blackcoat's Daughter 2015

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2018 2

  Patient, atmospheric horror executed this perfectly doesn't come along often.

  This film stirs something in the stomach, so slowly and steadily that you don't even notice it until it drops. I'd been wanting to see a movie that made me need to turn the lights on after and this was the one. The magic here hangs by what it nails: the sounds you hear when you stop and listen.

  Kiernan Shipka is primed to take over the world and I can't wait to see what she does with the rest of her career.

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  Hard to Be a God 2013

  Watched 13 Jan 2023

  This movie took me multiple attempts and multiple sittings to finish. As much a wonder to behold as it is a gauntlet to persevere, this wandering tour through the filthiest world on film is brilliantly conceived. One of the most uniquely textured and disgusting movies ever made in both visual and sound design, meticulously constructed for your viewing pleasure/displeasure.

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