Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Last Year at Marienbad 1961

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Jan 2025

  Too experimental for my unappreciative eyes.

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  L.A. Confidential 1997

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Better as a period piece than a thriller. I need me some full cut trousers.

Popular reviews

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  Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl 1998

  ★★½ Watched 27 Jan 2023 3

  Anti-communist propaganda that's as simple as the pro-communism propaganda that came before it. Made in response to the government program that relocated millions of Chinese youth to the countryside to re-educate them as laborers and to further the communist ideals of the Party, this film places the entire rape of a generation, their lost futures, and their deaths at the feet of an administration choked by bad policy, abuse of power, and mountains of paperwork.

  It is this bureaucracy that…

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  Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama 1993

  ★★ Watched 04 Jul 2023 1

  Being unfamiliar with the legend, I felt a bit punished by the film. It jumps from plot point to plot point and relies on the history of the story itself to lend gravitas instead of building it organically. This is not necessarily a criticism, but from the outside looking in, it made it near impossible to immerse. As such, the film is paced more like a documentary or a history special than a sweeping epic. And the animation quality didn’t…

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