Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Unrest 2022

  Watched 03 Feb 2025

  Property IS theft. Say that!

  Felt like a great practice in understatement — slow and quiet and contemplative, but with moments of punctuation that speak to an enduringly relevant subject.

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  Star Trek: Section 31 2025

  ★★ Watched 26 Jan 2025

  i think this would have been pretty interesting as a series. there were a good few kernels of ideas that could be nourished into compelling episode storylines. i was really curious how they would write a compact plot for both Section 31 and Phillipa Georgiou — two very large subjects, but i feel like justice was done to neither. 
  my first thought after finishing was: kinda blurry. a lot of the action was hard to track and rather disorienting. and…

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

  ★½ Watched 12 Dec 2022 1

  half a star for getting to see Poe and Finn one last time. and one whole star for Babu Frik who, frankly, carried the film.

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  Dìdi (弟弟) 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Jan 2025

  really spot on representation of that really strange time in adolescence where you’re trying on new versions of yourself and shedding friends and skins and feelings and occasionally you have a really profound moment of clarity when you understand the meaning of life and then you immediately get sucked back into your studies and your journey of the self. it was really good and i really miss that youtube interface