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Recent reviews

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  Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024

  ★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Amazingly stellar CGI, but too generic story and narrative.

  
  The film surely brings rich visuals to the eyes in the almost same level as Avatar, but just like Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), it mostly wowed me by visuals, not story and storytelling. Just when the story started gotten interesting, it cutted off those riveting elements and went back to generic story that we've seen and even played a lot in gameplay. If there's one thing I really like…

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  Traffic 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  An ambitiously masterful narrative with complexly needle-sharp screenplay and Oscar-level ensemble cast. Soderbergh's remarkable achievement in filmmaking.

  
  "Traffic" is a crime-drama film that deeply explored the illegal drug trade from several perspectives of 5 characters to deeply understand the core of this unsolvable problem and its tragic consequences that slowly get near to them without warning, like a storm.

  Of course, the semi-documentary style isn't something new for drug-busting films for making it so effectively real, but with artistic use…

Popular reviews

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  The Murderer 2023

  ★★ Watched 27 Jul 2023

  The beautiful visuals carry the whole film, everything else is just meh.

  Stunningly colurful cinematography and high production value. But, the film has flaws on its dark comedy due to the goofy and predictably wannabe-dark-comedy screenplay. There's an excessive duration with numerous unnecessary scenes. The balance of suspense and comedy was also far from good or harmonious. Those I mentioned made all the remarkable visuals look so poor immediately. Apparently, just another one-time-watch film on Netflix.

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  Transformers One 2024

  ★★★ Watched 22 Sep 2024

  I'm gonna transform my finger to a thumb up