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Recent reviews

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  Arthur the King 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jun 2024

  More dog, less human. 4 stars all for dog.

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  Ride or Die 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 18 Apr 2021

  Pretty Lesbians Dig Their Own Graves in Murakami Fashion. That should be the title.

Popular reviews

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  Hillbilly Elegy 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2021

  I am quite stunned by the negative reviews. As a foreigner, clearly I’m missing some local context here despite having read the book for an American Pluralism class a few years prior. Does everything made in the States have to be put under a microscope in search for a political agenda?

  That this would be seen as “poverty porn” or that hillbillies are as they are because of a lack in willpower misses the point. Wasn’t it apparent through the…

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  Ah Boys To Men 2012

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Jul 2020

  Can’t believe I missed this “rite of passage”. Pretty funny lah. Of course there were pretty cringey moments, acting, and CGI. Not many critical commentary points either, but they get the caricatures right down pat. I like the comparison between the modern and “grandfather story” versions of the army. Would be great with more racial diversity. Surely that’s not accurate. Awkward cut scenes in the beginning as well.

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