StephenYu

StephenYu

Favorite films

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • The Nice Guys
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • My Sassy Girl

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  • Thor: Love and Thunder

    ★★★½

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

  • Better Days

    ★★★★

  • Shutter Island

    ★★★★★

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  • Thor: Love and Thunder

    Thor: Love and Thunder

    ★★★½

    Painfully convenient plot points. Almost every conversation had to have a punchline. Kind of disappointing :(

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  • Ad Astra

    Ad Astra

    ★★½

    Brad Pitt talks to himself and tries to be emotionless for 2 hours. 

    There is an interesting plot and reveal. But the characters were never developed and we see them as such: fictional characters. 

    In essence it is a film about human emotion, needing to remain sane when there is no one else there for you. Ironically, the bulk of the film portrays Brad Pitt  trying his best to repress any emotions. His journey parallels his dad, as he slowly…

  • Parasite

    Parasite

    ★★★★★

    This film hooks you in immediately from the first scene. I feel that many films take sound for granted, although there’s the basics of loud for a heightened situation and soft for a sombre moment. 

    We follow the son, Kim Ki Woo (Choi Woo Shik) through the house at the very beginning, and we are introduced to the Kim family just like that. There’s a sense like we are in the film experiencing the story with the characters with the…

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