Kuroel
Bio: "Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established." - George Carlin
Recent Ratings
Check out Kuroel's...
| 50 26% | The Holiday (2006) - Rated 07 Jul 2024
"It's in the category of romcoms that you put on when you're having a cold and you're not 100% mentally acute. The romances don't feel like larger than life as they should."
|
| 58 44% | Ready, Set, Love (2024) - Rated 07 Jul 2024
"Taiwanese media is a little late to its international breakthrough, and most of the story beats in these Netflix series (most recent "offender" being Doctor Climax) resort to using extremely predictable and old tropes, story beats and twists. This is a fun series, but feels like an amalgamation of half a dozen other Western and Korean series with lesser depth. Better suited for young audiences that haven't watched much else. Visually vibrant though from the sets to the actors themselves."
|
| 68 76% | Behind Your Touch (2023) - Rated 07 Jul 2024
"The balance between slapstick antics and crime drama works mostly, but teeters more towards mopey in the last episodes (as most K-dramas do). I really hoped it would have broken that trite mould as otherwise it has a fresh, though very outlandish, premise."
|
| 10 1% | The Acolyte (2024) - Rated 22 Jun 2024
"It has so little faith in its ability to write/direct characters that everything someone does, thinks or feels is expositioned to viewers. Showrunner has admitted that this is a gay fanfic vanity project about herself and her sister. The amount of lore breakage is borderline hilarious. My only points are for Sol, that beautiful poor sod who learned English to be in this project. (But who tf gives a child a lightsaber as a DISTRACTION!) The Acolyte has the power of signaling without the virtue."
|
| 50 26% | The Goonies (1985) - Rated 27 Apr 2024
"I came into this without the burden of nostalgia. I have never seen Goonies as a kid, so this was my first time watching. And it's... messy. All the characters are annoying and deliver half the dialogue screaming their lines. There's also incessant back and forth with character motivations and plot advancement. Big lack of focus and disconnect of chemistry."
|
| 75 87% | Poor Things (2023) - Rated 27 Apr 2024
"I get how the grotesqueness may make some pearl-clutchers uncomfortable especially since Bella is still essentially mentally a toddler when she engages in physical relations. I'm not usually into films that even give out a waft of feminism (because it nowadays nearly always comes with hefty amount of man-hating), but this is a really engaging depiction how a woman matures beyond the expectations of confined feminine roles. Bella grows into a formidable powerplayer and it's a fascinating journey."
|
| 89 97% | Shōgun (2024) - Rated 27 Apr 2024
"A story about a Japanese warlord who plays 5D chess while his opponents play checkers. Breathtaking attention to detail with period appropriate language, costumes and mannerisms. There’s good and bad in every character. It’s morally muddy and often challenges Western concepts of honor and righteousness. A somewhat weak landing reduced the score from episode eight 99/100 high."
|
| 48 21% | Gen V (2023) - Rated 17 Mar 2024
"It’s definitely serving the same ingredients as The Boys, but skipped the 101 course on how to properly implement shock. It’s mainly gross just for the sake of it, and when trying to utilize the gore or sex in any meaningful way, it uses it for self-victimizing porn. As a female, I’m so incredibly done with the whole topic of how bad we “menstruators” have it when the education system has failed men and there’s so many issues men exclusively have to deal with. Gen V advocates cherry-picking."
|
| 67 73% | Damsel (2024) - Rated 17 Mar 2024
"Tagline says: “This isn’t your typical fairytale” Pray tell, Hollywood, when was the last time we had a male protagonist that saved a damsel in distress? 30 years ago? It’s laughable that audiences are STILL being gaslit into thinking that any given upcoming movie project is the FIRST OF ITS KIND to promote female empowerment when that’s the only kind of movies we have anymore. That being said, this was an entertaining watch. MBB sold the physical discomfort and there’s some grueling imagery."
|
| 20 2% | The Curse of Humpty Dumpty (2021) - Rated 16 Mar 2024
"The story was obviously build from the ending. Too bad the unfocused mess of a POV doesn’t earn the emotional impact of the haunting conclusion."
|
