Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Jan 2025

  I've had a very mixed experience with this series thus far. Up until seeing the first film, I didn't know anything about Dune, and after having watched it, I honestly didn't find myself particularly interested in it. Knowing it was going to be a long time before the film version of this story wrapped up, I found it really hard to actually care much about it, which is why I put off watching the second installment for as long as…

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  Hana & Alice 2004

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Out of the Iwai films I've seen thus far, Hana and Alice certainly isn't quite as refined and stylized as some of my favorites, but instead a more grounded slice-of-life style narrative about childhood relationships, lies, and deceit which are definitely also things I'm here for.

  In terms of things I enjoyed, I quite like how Hana's manipulation was portrayed and how the other characters reacted to it. None of the characters came off as stupid, and all had very…