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Recent reviews

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jul 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Memories 1995

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 06 Jan 2021

  Add this to the “Movies I saw because I was intrigued by its poster and it didn’t disappoint” list.

Popular reviews

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  Third World Hero 2000

  ★★★★ Added

  There is an array of films about the life and works of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal; from Maria Lourdes Abaya’s historical epic, José Rizal (1999), to the adaptations of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. But the other, less-discussed Rizal Film tackles not only the national heroes’ life and works, it irreverently questions how Rizal lived, died, and everything in between.

  Bayaning 3rd World, sets its sights on two filmmakers (Ricky Davao and Cris Villanueva) who are struggling…

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  Batch '81 1982

  ★★★★½ Added

  An up-close look into the veiled world of fraternity violence. As the AKO neophytes delve deeper into the ways of the "brotherhood", they begin to be the monsters they despise, continuing a vicious cycle of abusive power that mirror the years of Martial law and its detrimental effects on the Filipino consciousness and morality.