Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Red Rooms 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Feb 2025

  i haven't felt a movie crawl beneath my skin like this since cure. fantastic, deeply unsettling stuff. the courtroom scene will haunt me for days.

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  Rouge 1987

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  something about hong kong and ghost stories. haunting, memorable movie.

Popular reviews

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  Still Walking 2008

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Apr 2018

  koreeda has an incredible talent - the comparisons to ozu's subtle, methodical pace are evident and fully warranted. but equally impressive is his ability to blend his subdued touch with his gift for crafting a fully immersive, evocative environment in the vein of linklater or even miyazaki.

  this is perhaps no better demonstrated in koreeda's handling of death. death permeates and underlies nearly every frame, every line, every action. but while koreeda does not soften the blow of death's devastation,…

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★ Watched 01 Jan 2024

  what if you took The Talented Mr Ripley and ripped out its humanity and introspection and empathy with one's desire to belong and replaced it with a grave humping scene?