A good film, close to a great one. I am still arguing with myself about what it meant.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
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A good film, close to a great one. I am still arguing with myself about what it meant.
Vigília Noturna got under my skin. Heavy going, and it is meant to be. Small and intimate, and all the better for it.
Frankenstein Created Robyn is the real thing. Plot is beside the point; the inner life is everything. One for the shelf of things I press on people.
Mostly about the performances.
3 Women got under my skin. The kind of work that makes the rest of the year look lazy. It takes its time, and the patience pays off. Already want to watch it again.
Mostly about the story.
Everything I hoped Jia Zhangke's Dance would be, and more. Every choice feels considered. Straight onto my favourites.
Mostly about the craft.
The Day She Returns got under my skin. Every choice feels considered. Go in knowing as little as you can.
Mostly about the craft.
Indescribable without the term kitchen sink. What a self-indulgent mess.
Films, series, books, albums, games. Skip anything you haven't met.

Which one are you? The test above will tell you.
A taste fingerprint: fourteen dimensions, read against every other Bud. Yours appears after a handful of ratings.
Forrest Gump1994Epic, effortless, nostalgic and meticulous.
Not a genre label: how it moves, how it feels, what it asks of you. Every film, series, book, album and game is read on the same fourteen scales, each in its own terms (a record's tempo and sound, a game's challenge and world), and your profile is matched against them.
A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.




