Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Yanagawa 2021

  Rewatched 01 Mar 2025

  idk maybe i'll just keep rewatching this movie for the rest of the year

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  By the Stream 2024

  Watched 14 Sep 2024

  kim min-hee in lemaire will always be a serve (although tbh i have no confidence that i'm actually able to identify clothes by sight).

  there's a scene i loved when the theatre director chu has dinner with his student actors after they perform a skit and asks them to come up with a short poem that describes who they want to be in the future. hong's movies often have a kind of rough-hewn quality reminiscent of chinese independent film in…

Popular reviews

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  Happyend 2024

  Watched 13 Sep 2024

  as soon as i saw the yousuke yukimatsu cameo i knew i was going to love this one. totally adored the first 25 minutes or so and the title card design is hard asf. naming the surveillance company "panopty" is a great bit. maybe my favourite i've seen at TIFF so far?

  what i found particularly refreshing about happyend is that, more so than most other japanese films that have found wide release abroad lately, its depiction of japan is…

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  Yi Yi 2000

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Aug 2019

  it’s a brilliant movie, but i find the standard it sets is the one i compare novels to rather than other movies. so thoughtfully designed, so expansive, so generous with its sympathy. a film i will spend the rest of my life watching.