Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Next Goal Wins 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  I wish this had been more fleshed out, but it was still enjoyable. My favorite parts were learning about the culture of American Samoa: loved the pre-game warrior dance etc, and the fact that everyone had multiple jobs and stopped everything for community prayer time. The conversation prayer near the end was sweet and funny. I always love epilogues that feature the real people, and this one was no exception, and it was entertaining seeing how similar (or not), they looked like the actors.

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  Red, White & Royal Blue 2023

  ★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  A very typical rom com dressed up in a fun premise. 

  Of all of the token representations: woman president, black woman prime minister, half Latino president’s son, etc, the most radical one is having a short man married to a tall woman without making an issue of it. You never see that. 

  Genius casting of Stephen Fry.

  Nicholas Galitzine is surprisingly talented. 

  Love Rachel Maddow in this.

Popular reviews

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  Her Private Life 2019

  Watched 22 Jul 2021

  I watched this for a peek into the world of fangirling, but the product placements were so hilarious and stole the show. “It’s Duk-mi’s birthday but we have no cake, what do we do? Let’s use the Baskin Robbins app and order one. Mmm! This cake is so good!” “I’m a chaebol wife and what do I drive? A Chevy, of course, like everyone else in this world.” “You’ll be so hungry if you skip breakfast! Nope, this almond drink…

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  Dìdi (弟弟) 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Aug 2024 4

  I love that we are getting more and more films that are multilingual and it’s no big deal. Much funnier than expected - my kid laughed her head off and said that so much of it was “too real”. It felt like the filmmaker took all of the cringey events of this era of his life and fashioned it into a movie.

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