kai

Favorite films

  • Fallen Angels
  • The Beach Bum
  • Mauvais Sang
  • Intermission

All
  • Ballerina

    ★★★★

  • The Life of Chuck

    ★★★★

  • Karate Kid: Legends

  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★★

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Ballerina

2025

★★★★ Watched

obligatory ana de armas face card never declines comment. when is anjelica huston going to do a marina abramovic biopic? they should do a movie with abramovic acting with huston. was somewhat tepid about this, wondering if it can really live up to john wick. and perhaps its just the theater afterglow, but i loved this. the action glues you to the screen like any other john wick. and the whole concept of the action sequences is incredible. the world of assassins in john wick is legitimately compelling lore, it doesn't feel like worthless plot filler, it has intrigue.

The Life of Chuck

2024

★★★★ Watched

i saw on reddit people guessing that the amc unseen this week would be life of chuck. i hadn't seen any trailer and assumed it would be a horror based on stephen king. but wow this was great! surprisingly emotionally effecting. it reminded me of being in 5th grade and not having anyone want to dance with me at the school dance and then crying and then people asked if i wanted to dance out of pity and that made…

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First Love: The Litter on the Breeze

1997

★★★★½ Liked 2

evokes the feeling of a long lost wong kar-wai film. loved seeing takeshi kaneshiro smoking and writing on a typewriter.

Irma Vep

1996

1

let me preface this by saying that this is normally a film i wouldn't review on letterboxd because i would've just turned it off somewhere around the 30 minute mark. but a friend wanted me to finish this. i've read a lot of letterboxd reviews of this film and i'm frankly shocked. this feels incredibly overrated to me (perhaps even parasite level overrated). why are half the reviews commenting about how sexy maggie is in a latex suit? is the…

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