Ryan Oquiza

Ryan Oquiza

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  • La Notte
  • Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
  • News from Home
  • Past Lives

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  • Conclave

    ★★★★★

  • Disenchanted

    ★★

  • Wicked

    ★★★★½

  • The Apprentice

    ★★★★

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  • Conclave

    Conclave 2024

    ★★★★★ Watched 12 Dec 2024

    Clean, polished, and very All The President’s Men. Might have even moved me a bit in ways that would have shattered the Jesuit hiding underneath me (you can leave Ateneo but Ateneo will never leave you).

  • Disenchanted

    Disenchanted 2022

    ★★ Watched 10 Dec 2024

    There are two incomplete movies here. A realistic retelling of a coming of age story but with fairy tale characters — which then gets thrown out the window for a conventional fairy tale...with fairy tale characters? Subplots get dropped, character arcs are put on hold, and vague shapeless magic becomes the center point of the story.

    Imagine, instead, this Giselle; in her quest to become a better mother to an estranged Morgan, becomes overbearing, strict to a fault, and much…

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  • Gold, Silver, Death

    Gold, Silver, Death 1982

    ★★★★★ Watched 16 May 2020

    Okay, so storytime:

    I remember when I was just around 10 years old and I would always eat at JT's Manukan with my dad since it was my fave food chain at the time. Evidently, JT's Manukan was owned by Joel Torre, a sort of competitor against more famous chicken inasal chains such as Mang Inasal.

    The place was in Makati and I recall that it had a lot of Joel Torre posters hung around the place. From Jose Rizal,…

  • In My Mother's Skin

    In My Mother's Skin 2023

    ★★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2023

    Throughout Kenneth Dagatan’s horror film set during World War II in the Philippines, we never see any of the Japanese or American forces battling for control of the country. Instead, Dagatan points his camera at a family in a dismal state – in particular, their undiminished reliance on faith.

    What follows is a deconstruction of that faith, with shades of grey gradually spreading across the remaining vestiges of morality in wartime. The inevitability of the Japanese forces spells looming death…

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  • Past Lives
  • Oppenheimer
  • The Taste of Things
  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • Evil Does Not Exist

2023 Films Ranked (Constantly Updated!) 27 films

  • When You Left Me on That Boulevard
  • Help Me Understand
  • Parker
  • Sweatshop Girl
  • Sunflower Siege Engine

2023 Releases I've Watched 91 films

  • Ang Pagdadalaga ng Dalagang Bukid
  • Saving the Country Maiden
  • Looking for the Country Maiden

Dalagang Bukid Coming-of-Age 3 films

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