Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Colors Within 2024

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Saccharine adolescence, but nothing I haven't seen before narratively. Killer tracks tho

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  Ben-Hur 1959

  ★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025 4

  Decent historical epic, with one of the greatest action sequences of all time. Turns aggressively corny once jesus becomes a prominent figure, and it sours the rest of the experience for me. Your milage may vary but I don't have a religious bone in my body and generally find most forms of religious prosletyzing to be profoundly annoying and grating. Of course religious art can be great (e.g. Talk Talk's Laughing Stock, or Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet), but it needs to be less goofy than this.
  Still, a shame films don't look like this anymore

Popular reviews

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  Your Lie in April 2014

  ★★ Watched 15 Dec 2020 2

  dramaturgically simple, but what annoys me about this (and pretty much the majority of mainstream anime that aren't movies) is that it tries to hide its simplicity by pretending to be a complex character drama.
  there's heaps of pseudo-philosophical bullshit, annoying anime tropes, and generally boring directing. its also incredibly tone deaf, going from tragic to goofy in a fucking nanosecond.

  its charming, and the end is kinda neat, but this has gotta be one of the most overrated shows ive ever seen... dosent even compare to the shows made by the less mainstream auters like yuasa and nakamura.

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  A Dog's Will 2000

  ★★½ Watched 05 Aug 2020 13

  To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand A Dog's Will. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of brazillian culture most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Jack's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. Brazillians understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes,…