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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025

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

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  Penda's Fen 1974

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  We live in societies indifferent to their own histories. In my country, we demolish building after building, memory after memory, in the name of redevelopment. It’s a constant, savage erasure of a place’s soul. How can we hope to remember the stories of a thousand years ago when we’re still mourning what was lost just five years ago?

  I have long envied the British for their seemingly strong connection to their pagan past, for the way their stories have a…

Popular reviews

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  Romeo + Juliet 1996

  ★★ Rewatched 02 Jan 2022

  Ok! But they should have gone further with the title too!
  Not "Romeo+Juliet" but "Romeo(+Juliet)" !!

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  The Graduate 1967

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 22 Nov 2024

  Why does this movie feel so much more relatable now than when I first watched it in my early twenties? Here’s my ode to youth after rewatching The Graduate:

  Youth is like playing the sentimental melodies of Simon and Garfunkel on a loop in your head. Overwhelming yourself with emotion, intentionally intoxicating yourself with ideas of love, loneliness—whatever obsesses you. Scribbling your lover’s name all over a blank page on your messy desk. Crying and laughing at your tortured, romanticized…