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Recent reviews

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  Exotica 1994

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  there have been days that I had woken up and realized someone I loved had died — yet not physically! ( I have yet to experience a loss of someone close to me, I’m not looking forward to inevitably of time passing like that ) but I feel what could be a very similar grief, the kind of realizing that the person I thought I knew was never really there, and that good memories were now empty; more strongly felt…

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  Leave No Trace 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  need more attention given to the boys and men who have survived such unimaginable cruelty, simply from being put into an environment created for keeping abuse rampant. emotional and valuable to hear such genuine thoughts from those effected— also informative and insightful on the whole Boy Scouts deal and the cultural significance of it in America

Popular reviews

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ½ Watched 02 Mar 2024 63

  Uniquely abhorrent piss in the face of the genocide of Palestinian people + ongoing brutality of brown people in the Middle East. Dune could be the most daring, biting criticism of western imperialism. It’s meant to be. But for Villeneuve, it’s just a chance to get a little Kojima-core and make everyone shit themselves over the visuals and sound, while the narrative itself wobbles around, barely able to stand on its own two feet.
  White people with barely a handful…

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  Graphic Sexual Horror 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jul 2020

  this is the first documentary I’ve ever had to watch on a porn site for lack of any other sources, so that was good foreshadowing for what I was about to watch. anyway,

  there’s so much going on here, and I really appreciated the complexity of everything this doc was handling. The sexuality and euphoria/ surrounding emotions of sadomasochism, how the bdsm porn community functions, what consent constitutes, government censorship, how bdsm forms with art or what the creator thinks…