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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2023

★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2024

A brilliant, open-ended reaction to and reflection of our current slow apocalypse. There's a specificity to time and place that seldom feels as honest in other "message" films. This combined with a playfully post-modern, cracked collage of observations and details creates an invigoratingly original and political film. The final 35+ minutes are casual, political punk artistry.
Ilinca Manolache"s performance and character is one of my all-time favorites. A fitful and bare ode to righteous living in dead end times.
"IT'S LATER THAN YOU THINK."
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Remembering Every Night 2022

★★★★★ Watched 21 Feb 2023 2

A lowkey stunner. Love pretty much everything about Yui Kiyohara's ode to loneliness, fleeting connections and daydreams and stoic longing. The visual approach to the setting, along with the pitch-perfect quirky and whimsical score, create a world filled with warmth and lyrical isolation. There are so many memorable visuals, moments and lines of dialogue within. The (slight) overlapping of the characters is flawless, and never feels overly cute or forced. The kind of film that matches those quiet moments when…

Recent reviews

Shockproof 1949

★★ Watched 04 Mar 2025

Sometimes it feels like watching Sirk films are just an exercise in finding someone who doesn't suck. Providing cheesy American melodrama as a reference point is still worth some cultural value. This is a stuffy bore until the final 30 minutes lets the melodrama get wild with some actual action and tension. George Duning's score is ridiculous and doing most of the work.
The Monkey 2025

★ Watched 04 Mar 2025

Comedy is hard.
Oz Perkins really out here shooting a few trailer-worthy images and tricking studios and the people into budgets and viewership.

Popular reviews

Malena 2000

½ Watched 04 May 2021 1

The origin story of a likely serial rapist but the movie wants to think it's a thoughtful coming of age period drama. Vile all around. Few films have hated a woman as intensely as this one. A prime example of validating misogyny, Italian edition. Bellucci has less than 10 lines here.
Rebel Ridge 2024

★★★★ Watched 27 Aug 2024 2

The opening hour of this film is some of my favorite beat-by-beat methodical and purely entertaining filmmaking in recent years. What starts as a tense, steely neo-Western thriller, eventually tacks on a few more moves - both legal thriller and revenge actioner get some play, as well. It's all infused with heartfelt social and political righteousness and enough plot surprises and character shading to avoid artifice. Aaron Pierre is out of sight and full of surprising hero beats and welcomed…

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