Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Maurice's Bar 2023

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  love this art style

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  Within Our Gates 1920

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  fascinating early melodrama with some non-linear plotting and striking use of cross-cutting in the harrowing third act (I read in other reviews that this is a sort of response to Birth of a Nation, which makes a lot of sense, but I haven't seen that film myself)

Popular reviews

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  Death to 2020 2020

  ★★ Watched 27 Dec 2020

  ah yes, 2020, a year that only happened in the US and the UK

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  Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald 1997

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 May 2021

  who knew a film about live radio could be this thrilling? you can tell Kōki Mitani has a theatre background with his long lingering shots and the fact that the entirety of this film takes place in a single building (and a truck), with most scenes in a single room, and yet it completely works

  incredible to see how a relatively minor change at the start butterfly-effects into the hurricane that is the third act

  highly recommend, you can even catch it on youtube with English subs (edit: the video was copyright striked alas)