Joel Anthony Lim

Favorite films

  • Boyhood
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Spider-Man 2
  • Mariquina

All
  • Sinners

    ★★★★★

  • Warfare

    ★★★½

  • Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

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Sinners

2025

★★★★★ Liked Watched

One of the best moviegoing experiences of my life. Will expand this later but…wow

Warfare

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched

War is boring.
War is menial.
War is the hype fizzling out of you.
War is fake macho.
War is brotherhood.
War is realizing it isn’t worth it to lose brotherhood.
War is the embarrassing moments of peeing in a bottle and accidentally using morphine on yourself.
War is the grenade and the IED that shatters your sense of peace and hearing.
War is the screams that echo through the hallways.
War is loss of control.
War is realizing your…

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Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

In the two and a half hours of this part-documentary and part-concert film, I felt a lifetime of watching movies flashing before my eyes - from seeing The Lion King in VHS as a kid, to being obsessed with the Pirates franchise growing up, to being mind-blown by his Nolan collaborations like Dunkirk, Interstellar and my personal favorite Inception.

Watching this felt so overwhelming I was tearing up in some parts like when the Man of Steel theme hits its…

The Apprentice

2024

★★★★ Liked Watched

Nothing really new but hard carried by Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong that it was still compelling to watch. Honestly shocked how sympathetic, nuanced and humanizing they treated the subjects. A buddy film that transforms into a horror movie - basically Succession in the 70s and 80s.

Stan is terrific as Trump who gradually morphs from an insecure guy to the arrogant jerk we know today, while Strong is perfect as the embodiment of evil with Roy Cohn who creates…

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