Calvin Chen

"No, man! What!? There's too many good films in the world to waste time watching the bad ones!" - Coach Ramos.

Favorite films

  • Jerry Maguire
  • Rashomon
  • Phantom Thread
  • Past Lives

All
  • When Life Gives You Tangerines

  • The Tree of Life

    ★★★★★

  • Heat

    ★★★★½

  • Burn After Reading

    ★★★★

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When Life Gives You Tangerines

2025

Liked Watched

Not an actual review cuz I mostly watched it over my mom’s shoulder, but she cried at every episode and she never cries so I guess it’s pretty good?

The Tree of Life

2011

★★★★★ Liked Watched

You’re all I ever wanted.”

The first time we see the wave crest, it is the death of the current. It is tragic.
The second time we see the wave crest, it is the force of the ocean. It is powerful.
The final time we see the wave crest, it is the natural culmination of the water’s journey. It is closure.

I started asking people what their “desert island movie” would be. Something long, some say. Something I can rewatch,…

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I Saw the TV Glow

2024

★★★★ Liked Watched

I almost started crying at the end in the bathroom. Something about how no matter how much time might , you still always have the chance to find something within yourself to be beautiful. Maybe this movie isn’t for everyone, but it isn’t supposed to be.
Reminded me of a friend I had and a person that I could’ve been, although probably not in the way that it sounds. Either way, gives me a lot to think on. Soundtrack kills. Kind of have a screen crush on Jack Haven now.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

★★★★★ Liked 1

"okay."
"okay."

Oh man. I'm not sobbing as much as I thought I would be, but this film wrecked me in a lot of different ways. fuck... there's so much messed up stuff we can think but never really feel, that we say but never really mean. I think about going into another relationship and I don't know if I've still got open wounds that need patching up, if there are ones that I left on other people that I…