Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Rescue 2021

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  I cried the entire time. an absolute master class in documentary filmmaking — engaging, raw, and incredibly heartwarming. I am so proud to be Thai 🥹

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  Her 2013

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 10 Mar 2025 2

  thinking about when I was fifteen and showed this to the girl I was madly in love with. she didn’t get the movie, so naturally my crush disappeared. was I a dramatic bisexual or a pretentious cinephile first? 
  who’s to say?

Popular reviews

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  How to Survive a Plague 2012

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Sep 2020

  scenes that made me cry:

  1) at the cathedral when the activists were heckling the archbishop (truly iconic)
  2) Ray Navarro’s speech (rest in peace king ❤️)
  3) unnamed man scattering the ashes of his partner in front of the White House (this is when the sobbing began)

  gays are so fucking resilient. so proud of my community, always

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jan 2023 1

  what really struck me upon rewatch is how perfect the decision is to have Sophie as 11. she’s not yet a teenager — like the British tourists she watches through the keyhole, almost gazing upon herself in a few years. But she’s no longer a child — like the young boy pulling a temper tantrum by the pool, dragged off by his father. it’s moments where Sophie feigns maturity (switching out her shirt under her swimsuit to a bikini, longing to…