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Recent reviews

Paranormal Fables “The Mission” 2007

★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

this was *horrible*, like genuinely worst ultra low budget 2000s core short film ever (the horrible fashion... omg), complete with sound cutting out and atrocious acting - but i loved the bad vibes so much.. since when are stories from singapore this cool? lol
first and last 5 minutes were pretty awesome, especially when the police were investigating the murder in the long grassy fields
wish this would get an online release on youtube or something so more people can watch this complete trashfire (but its so charming), as of now it's near impossible to find outside of like, one single dvd in the library
Barbara 2012

★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025 2

i'm very mixed on this film as a whole, but the final sequence at the sea is hands down the *greatest!!!!!!* use of day for night in the history of cinema (close runners-up maybe twixt and boonmee?)
almost cried just from the sheer emotion pulsating through the endless twilight and the deep blue waves shimmering with tips of white magic, made going to the cinema beyond worth it just for those otherworldy five minutes that felt like they lasted forever…

Popular reviews

Godland 2022

★★★ Added 1

i am so, so conflicted about this film.
for every gorgeous jawdropping shot or sequence (especially the first half), there's 20 of the most banal, horrid filmmaking examples on display a couple minutes later. it's just such a narratively bland and unthoughtful film, with the worst second half I've seen.
but at the same time, there's some incredible filmmaking on display here. the sequence with nature shots and the photography along with the poetry near the beginning was incredible. the…
About Dry Grasses 2023

★★½ Watched 09 Aug 2023 1

a film that's full of good ideas, but unfortunately gets tonally muddled and side shifts into a hour-long philisophical discussion that has nothing to do with the first 90 minutes. could've just been a book (and i don't like it when films could've just been a book and don't benefit from the visual medium).
last 30 minutes is also incredibly frustrating. i can't tell if nuri bilge is addressing the problematic nature of the pedophilic character by almost doing a…

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