Rin
@hochirin.bsky.social
Para-bureaucrat. Infrastructure respecter. Multicultural democracy enjoyer. 🆓🇵🇸. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Deeply haunting, exceptionally funny.
How are we supposed to share a society with agents of state violence?
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How are we supposed to share a society with agents of state violence?
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A ★★★★½ review of It Was Just an Accident (2025)
An incredible high-wire act between the high-tension comedy of errors as Vahid and co. keep piling on more and more former victims into the van in their attempt to definitively prove if they've kidnap...
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January 24, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Deeply haunting, exceptionally funny.
How are we supposed to share a society with agents of state violence?
letterboxd.com/rinkou/film/...
How are we supposed to share a society with agents of state violence?
letterboxd.com/rinkou/film/...
Some genre-defining action sequences deeply hampered by the partnership-ending script and edit row between Woo & Hark that leaves the whole thing structurally unsound to a mission-compromising degree, unfortunately
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A ★★ review of A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Some incredible action sequences, including a ton of what seem like prototypes for their platonic ideals later in Woo's career here (dual-wielding down the stairs, the car and warehouse set pieces, th...
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January 19, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Some genre-defining action sequences deeply hampered by the partnership-ending script and edit row between Woo & Hark that leaves the whole thing structurally unsound to a mission-compromising degree, unfortunately
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letterboxd.com/rinkou/film/...
Some really great scenes and images from the master, but feels like it falls short of fully exploring the twin themes of the violence of capitalism and the crash outs of insecure men
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A ★★★½ review of No Other Choice (2025)
Park’s always been a master of weaving a scene together - masterful transitions and compositing, long takes and layered compositions, his use of score. That all said, I feel like there’s a bit of a di...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Some really great scenes and images from the master, but feels like it falls short of fully exploring the twin themes of the violence of capitalism and the crash outs of insecure men
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boxd.it/czBZdb
A real miss. Narrative starts and stops for a whole 50 minutes, and then we have a 10 minute denouement. Feels like a 15 minute script stretched to 90 minutes.
The action is shot and edited in such a way to be largely illegible.
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The action is shot and edited in such a way to be largely illegible.
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A ½ review of The Bodyguard (2016)
Plodding, disjointed, interminable. The narrative starts and stops several times before we even get going - a prologue that seems to set up the conflict between Ding and Choi that's immediately resolv...
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January 10, 2026 at 4:20 AM
A real miss. Narrative starts and stops for a whole 50 minutes, and then we have a 10 minute denouement. Feels like a 15 minute script stretched to 90 minutes.
The action is shot and edited in such a way to be largely illegible.
letterboxd.com/rinkou/film/...
The action is shot and edited in such a way to be largely illegible.
letterboxd.com/rinkou/film/...
Incredible costuming and score, some really cool images, but ultimately hobbled by a disjointed and muddled script. It's electric at its highs, but the lows inspire more boredom than despair
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A ★½ review of Ballad of a Small Player (2025)
Tons of technical ability on display here - some really stunning shots and compositions, really riveting loud colors and costuming, a really great performance from Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton, a k...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Incredible costuming and score, some really cool images, but ultimately hobbled by a disjointed and muddled script. It's electric at its highs, but the lows inspire more boredom than despair
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Visually stunning, and our cast all knock it right out of the park, but there's a fundamental misread of the source material that leaves it unable to really shine.
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A ★★★ review of Train Dreams (2025)
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January 4, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Visually stunning, and our cast all knock it right out of the park, but there's a fundamental misread of the source material that leaves it unable to really shine.
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Somewhat messy, but more importantly: incredibly funny, a radical reclaiming of the trilogy and its characters. Deeply, movingly, achingly earnest. Love it as an extended Animatrix-style optional addendum.
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A ★★★½ review of The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Certainly a bit narratively messier than the original trilogy, a couple of (tongue-in-cheek?) Whedon-Marvelisms (the Merovingian's threat to come back in a spin-off sequel got a laugh out of me, I'll ...
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January 3, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Somewhat messy, but more importantly: incredibly funny, a radical reclaiming of the trilogy and its characters. Deeply, movingly, achingly earnest. Love it as an extended Animatrix-style optional addendum.
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Neo makes such a big point about learning jiu jitsu in the first entry, and then once he’s got the mount and is in perfect position to go for an arm triangle he just leaves his face wide open 🙂↔️
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A ★★★★ review of The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
This was always my favorite entry in the series growing up, and even if it doesn’t still hold that spot now, it’s still really special. It’s that turn in the second act where it becomes a war movie. T...
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January 1, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Neo makes such a big point about learning jiu jitsu in the first entry, and then once he’s got the mount and is in perfect position to go for an arm triangle he just leaves his face wide open 🙂↔️
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boxd.it/clXjmX
Love that so many animation industry greats got to do their own shorts. Some really great images and stylistic flourishes here
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A ★★★ review of The Animatrix (2003)
Really charming animation across each of these - there’s a bit of thinness to the shorts, leaning on the animation and theme to carry them, but that’s the nature of shorts. A ton of really riveting im...
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January 1, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Love that so many animation industry greats got to do their own shorts. Some really great images and stylistic flourishes here
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Not as elegant as the first, but still some of the best genre-film making of our modern era. Very funny to call the least gun-focused installment "Reloaded"
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A ★★★★ review of The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
I remember when growing up everybody thought this one was the best of the series, but it always sat lower in my estimations. It always felt like it fell a little in-between the self-assured first inst...
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December 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Not as elegant as the first, but still some of the best genre-film making of our modern era. Very funny to call the least gun-focused installment "Reloaded"
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