Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  oof.

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  Theorem 1968

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025 2

  Smacking a Q.E.D. of a Godardian flavour, Pasolini plunges into the void that lies beyond the bourgeois lifestyle, the naturally ignored emptiness that pervades once the family of 4 (plus a maid) gets a taste of pure ethereal beauty in the form of a visitor's schlong; to say Saltburn is an imbecile's attempt at Teorema won't be a far-reach. As a thought-experiment this movie works; Pasolini being an atheist fascinated with Catholicism gives it a peculiar air, the peculiarity that…

Popular reviews

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  Kill Boksoon 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Mar 2023 1

  Why can't this have been a 90 min flick?! Honestly would have loved it more that way, the runtime is not justified. The action choreography is smooth, premise is slick, Boksoon is the closest Spy×Family enjoyers could get to Yor Forger.

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  Merry Christmas 2024

  ★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2024 1

  A romance thriller with its achilles heel being the romantic element. I'm a sucker for "walk-and-talk" films but the conversational aspect of this film is so undercooked that it fails to sell the romantic spark between the two leads, the inchoate dialogues don't help either. It's a slow-burn film that forgets to light the stove on in the first place. Unironically the performances by side characters were strongest in the film. Needless to say, the lack of character development in…