Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Most Hated Man on the Internet 2022

  ★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  this is exactly the level of motherhood I aspire to

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  Spirited Away 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  probably the best movie ever made?

  finally, my daughter is no longer afraid of ghosts, and we watch it every single day

Popular reviews

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  Closeness 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Aug 2024

  Everything you santed to know about life in Russia but were afraid to ask: claustrophobia, ethnic tension, and endless internal conflict.

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  Anora 2024

  ★★ Watched 08 Nov 2024

  Perhaps I can’t connect with the film Anora because of its barrage of ethnic cliches, pointless scenes of violence, and shallow humor. It feels like watching a very bad Russian comedy, the kind that irritates me immensely—with its “big Russian soul,” generosity, oligarchs, “party like a Russian,” and silly Armenians as minions to the bad Russians. Yet the film is entirely American, and while the copious Russian swearing adds an interesting flavor, it’s really only understood by native speakers, most…

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