Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Shape of Water 2017

  ★★★★ Watched 21 Dec 2017

  Swirling thoughts about monstrosity and humanity. It was the first time I've seen signing cinematized and it was the most beautiful thing I've seen, reminding me of Deaf West's work with Spring Awakening. The final scenes did leaps and cartwheels for me, in emotion and plot. Really wonderful that I caught Del Toro's exhibition up in Toronto just this past November and now can watch his newest film. I could see the imaginative threads that lead to it.

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  King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Sep 2017 1

  Left with chills in my body since the day I watched this film. Charlie Hunnam's a provocative actor to watch.

Popular reviews

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  Raise the Red Lantern 1991

  Watched 13 Jul 2017

  Haunting. Raise the Red Lantern can just be a film that talks about the plots four concubines wage over one another, but it can also be more than that. We've willingly eaten up the worst dirt that Chinese traditions come with over the last century, subjugating individual thought in favour for an all-powerful governing body - and I'd argue that the master can be read as any centralised power that has taken over China at any given time period, whether…

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  Confessions 2010

  ★★★★½ Watched 27 Jun 2016

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.