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  In the Lost Lands 2025

  ★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  worldbuilding? ❌
  unified style? ❌
  dialogue? ❌
  composition? ❌
  score? ❌
  chemistry? ✅
  cool guns? ✅
  The movie basically peaked 5 minutes into the movie at Dave Bautista’s gun slinging. There was a palpable sense of loneliness and yearning that came through, but otherwise this movie is a wash. There isn’t an emotional through-line or a sense of tension, especially because no motivations or stakes are set up, even though a third of the movie is political.

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  RM: Right People, Wrong Place 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 08 Dec 2024

  1. So beautiful to see.
  2. I never think about transitions or changes happening in a fixed time. But Namjoon realised he lost himself and worried he wouldn’t be able to complete the transition within the year (before enlistment). San said “I think you will [complete it].”
  3. His direct address to Seokjun in the middle of the documentary, where he talks about his contradictions and ‘illi-billi’s was funny. There was a small audience in my theatre, but it got…

Popular reviews

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  20th Century Girl 2022

  Watched 22 Oct 2022

  a summer rain scene, fruit tree scene, rollercoaster scene, train station scene. the crying train station scene in particular felt so real. being a teenager is crazy

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  Titane 2021

  ★ Watched 14 Jul 2021

  i want everyone to know i don't like this movie i'm a hater i wasn't even going to log it but seeing it win the pakme d'or has actually fucked me off so badly. shock value and oil over an empty film.
  vincent lindon did an incredible job but the story, the protagonist ....