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  Adolescence 2025

  Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Yeah so I cried, and shit don't make me cry like that, so I figured I'd just note that down...

  This shit good af. It's essentially a play, told in 4 acts. The one-shot thing is intriguing, though beyond the penultimate episode (Ep 3), I am not sure if it amounts to anything more than a gimmick. Regardless, it is quite an impressive feat. The writing is pretty ace, a little obvious and overt, but quite quite sublime in bits.…

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  The Electric State 2025

  ★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  320 million for this? Huh... hope everyone got paid well I guess...

  This is just Bright but with robots. This is just Ready Player One but not a video game. This is just Robots but with humans. This is just E.T. but with a real boy at the end. Like you know how many movies I can rattle off with the same fucking premise? So what's the difference here? Two English actors crying at each other in American accents? Chris…

Popular reviews

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  Stonewall 2015

  ½ Watched 06 Jun 2022

  Okay so...

  This, at its core, is not a good film. Way too bloated, way too many story beats, way too much bullshit to trog through. On its own merits, it'd still be a low scoring film in my eyes...

  But oh oh oh BOY is it almost offensively bad at being a movie about LGBTQ+ people. For one, almost all of the gay people in this film are portrayed as sexual deviants. Which, I am sex-positive af, but when…

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Jun 2023

  Lemme boot up my PainStation 5 really quick....

  I'm loving this new era of Asian American filmmaking. Asian American people creating stories that uniquely capture the voice of being Asian and American. I view this film more as a metaphor of longing of not only your past, but the past viewed in an immigrant lens. There's so much you miss from home, you miss the people, you miss the environment, you miss the food (god, you miss the food). While…