Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Garden Sandbox 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Oct 2023

  A cozy, unassuming film lead by some truly endearing performances. Love a wholesome little hang-out movie like this.

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  Malcolm & Marie 2021

  ★★½ Watched 01 Oct 2023

  Visually stunning. Love how this is lit. Thoughtful framing throughout. Loved the music too.

  Performances float between inspired and oddly flat. The script's awkward pacing and overwrought syntax is the culprit here, not the cast.

  Too many topics are shoved into the finite time frame of a single evening. Feels as if the author is trying to soapbox as much as they can.

  Would've enjoyed the experience much more if there were only maybe 1/10th of the words present. Also:…

Popular reviews

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  Love Hotel 1985

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Apr 2018 2

  I've never wondered what it'd be like if Gaspar Noe had made In the Mood for Love, but now I don't have to.

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  The Night 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2021 5

  I'm such a simp for Tsai that my boy really just sat a camera on a few street corners then slapped on a sad song at the end and I still thought it was a moving work of art.

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