Under Paris

2024

★★★ Watched

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Love Actually

2003

★★★★ Watched

Kinda confusing in the 1st act, because there are lot of characters 🫣 But it ended wholesomely... so cute?!?! My lonely soul is shaking rn 🥲

Snowden

2016

★★★★ Watched

I no longer have to worry about what happens tomorrow, because I’m happy with what I’ve done today

The pacing is kinda slow, but somehow the storyline still captivates me enough to make me want to watch it till the end—unless the part when Snowden and Lindsay fight bothers me a lot because they show it too much!

This City Is a Battlefield

2025

★★★★ Watched

Pertama baca novelnya udah cukup lama, yaitu tahun 2022. Namun, somehow gue masih bisa inget detail-detail tertentu dalam novelnya yang dimasukkan ataupun nggak di versi film ini.

Production designnya luar biasa megah dan stylish, no doubt. First of all, apresiasi usaha untuk menyulap Kota Lama kembali ke era kolonial. Lalu, tentu saja wardrobe-nya yang stylish dan memanjakan mata, serta sound designnya yang sukses bikin senam jantung mini. Kemudian, terkait penggunaan Bahasa Belanda, sekalipun gue bukan penutur bahasa itu, pengucapannya looks…

Nanny Mhee

2005

★★★★½ Watched

In my country, people often propagandize an obsolete saying: “The more children you have, the more fortune you will get.“

In fact, the correct word is like this: “The more children you have, the more fortune you HAVE TO get.”

Wind River

2017

★★★★★ Watched

The title card in the ending 🥲 

Not to mention.. the irony between the issue this film is trying to raise vs what its producer has done for many years 💀 
Dark -> darker -> darkest -> blind 🧑‍🦯