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  While We Watched 2022

  Watched 12 Sep 2023 1

  watch asap

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  The Nun II 2023

  Watched 13 Sep 2023

  It's sad what they've done with Valak ever since her terrifying debut in The Conjuring 2. So much potential squandered.

Popular reviews

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  A Brighter Summer Day 1991

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jul 2019 28

  100/100

  A Brighter Summer Day was the first Taiwanese film I had ever seen and it had left me floored, back at a time when I was wholly ignorant of its history and culture. As I watched more and more Taiwanese cinema, this one film kept echoing and reverberating through my memory, somehow only growing in stature.

  About six months later, I decided to finally put my thoughts in writing, and come to terms with how I feel about this…

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  Evolution of a Filipino Family 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Aug 2019 6

  98/100
  
  Filmed over a span of 10 years, running over a period of 10 hours, illuminating the unseen face of a nation spread across its past, present and projected future, this is Evolution of a Filipino Family. This is Lav Diaz. This is cinema at its most potent, mined to its extremes and exploited like never before, fixing a hard gaze on the neglected and abused―the lowest strata of civilized society―like nothing has ever dared to.

  Even if the film…