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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
"In the name of Masha Amini, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Roya Hesmati..... And Director Rasoulof who had to flee after getting sentenced to 8 years. When hushed breath, whispered tone and stifled laughs poured into the streets in protestation, all because the hair wanted to fly with the wind and apparently it's too much to ask. Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of The Sacred Fig, in its essence is a microcosm of what's it like to live under a theocratic autocracy where even…"
We Live in Time
"Florence Pugh implores you to question yourself how many lives is it possible to live in just one life. A Slice of Life. Looking at a photo album of the most wonderful pair through thick and thin. Pugh is the GOAT in the making. A poignant home video spliced and cut into other home videos in which life as we know it can be seen slipping like sand through fingers really fast, like an hour and forty minutes fast. Love…"
Soft & Quiet
"A low-rent cutscene from American History X that Nick Fuentes could use for his leisure. I was shocked to see how class-diverse this lot was, from teacher to store manager to ex-convict and whatnot. Hand-held camera for effect and loud acting choices that were borderline ridiculous, this provocative movie escalates fast and changes its tune rapidly to an unbelievable proportion. But, mostly it feels tremendously exploitative while depicting a serious situation revolving around an age-old problem that has really mushroomed lately. The characters felt cut out of cardboard and the entire thing seemed ham-fisted."
My Old Ass
"If self-help gets this much literal, instruction-based and full proof, maybe I am down for some Rhonda Byrne. A tribute to the people who misguidedly but full of hope wish that someday their obituaries are gonna read- "No Regrets". And so much as we think that older folks have gotten everything figured out, sadly they don't. After CODA, Eighth Grade, The Edge of Seventeen, Booksmart etc I guess it's natural to feel a little underwhelmed when it comes to these kind of movies."
Censor
"A vision board for investigative agencies to recreate hyperrealistic crime scenes An underappreciated horror thriller that makes you go down the eerily unsettling nightmare of a rabbit hole deep into utter madness through those uncharted caverns of the brain. Censor is a steady display of insanity based on the application of that Emile Durkheim quote- " All forms of deviancy are simply a challenge to the normalised repressiveness of the State.""
Nightbitch
"Beware of the metaphorical canine that came out of the wilderness and got domesticated.Lois Lane runs like the wind in this psychological body horror. Amy Adams lets her intrusive self take the wheel in this messy magical realism of a story about womanhood, postpartum toddler developmental stage with no chill that gives away too much and leaves too little to the imagination. Or is it just an awareness campaign for Clinical Lycanthropy? I don't think even the director is…"
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
"Heavy on the fairy light on the tale. A middlingly worthy sequel that is as much about the sidekick and supporting characters as it is about its protagonists and their flaws symbolizing one life is enough to make a dent or in this case a scratch but with familiar devices that have been in use ad nauseam. Wacky anthropomorphized animals and the one true formidable adversary."
Puss in Boots
"Holy Frijoles! Pirates of The Caribbean mixed with Mad Max for cat lovers with the same silliness and adventure barring the sea or the sails or the roaring machines and the mutants with age-old fairytales and parables sprinkled around. Badass Banderas as a feline bandit. Puss In Boots delivers one of those rare mediums for exposition in a deliberate yet hilarious manner. Even in an animated movie, Banderas is a Casanova and doesn't forget to misremember the name of his squeeze from his one-night stand. But, all things considered and given the circumstances that's a good kitty kitty."
Kishkindha Kaandam
""Which would be worse, to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"- Shutter Island. This devastatingly heart-wrenching mystery drama although overcooked in its third act and takes quite a bit of inspiration from foreign materials and if given enough attention, the looming twist can be deduced from a mile, whether because of the clue/motif/easter egg (whatever you wanna call it) attached to the title itself or in case one is familiar with the works of Dennis…"
Conclave
".... And here I thought I would never see the day a room full of old men would go radio silent when suddenly a group of women appear, contrary to my exactly reversed personal experience. The chalice, the power and the shenanigans equipped with cloak-and-dagger that follows for the coveted papacy.It's The Two Popes and John Patrick Shanley's Doubt meet Succession with a very slight tinge of Angels & Demons. Like if John Le Carré and Jesse Armstrong had a…"
New Life
"Sets the viewers off on a wild goose chase by subtle use of red herring and then leads right back into a familiar trope. Nevertheless made me paranoid enough to be concerned about Big Pharma, governments, security agencies and International institutions being together in the same bed."
Sing Sing
"How many emotions can somebody go through in a span of 90 minutes? This movie says all of them. Turns a revengeful retributive justice system into a transformative and rehabilitative one; not by taking a rebellious knife into its heart rather with the help of art, passion, self-love and a whole lot of remorse while showing both fairness and the injustice of it all. Colman Domingo's vulnerable performance with a wide smile plastered on his hardened countenance acts as the…"
The Substance
"Elisabeth. Sue. Hollow Man. I get the reference. Every superhero movie can be this good if they intend to say something this substantial but that would mean leaving aside kids and young adults as a key demographic. If not for the needless spoon-feeding of self-evident exposition, a tad bit of flaky and going overboard with the performance here and there as well as somewhat of a peculiar bombardment of visuals and fast and loud editing (which I am sure was…"
The Order
"Another year another one of those Kurzel's movie about lonely, disaffected and insurrectionary men. Hoult keeps on impressing this year but a craggy, weathered Jude Law takes home the prize."
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
"Season 1A fuming searing subliminal critique of Amazon's work culture."
Heretic
"Maybe we are all witnesses in the final chapter of what I call- The Turning of Grant; from a lovable, fluttering, mumbling and charming romantic to gradually a menacing terrifying psychopath in a way that I personally interpret as an alternate universe where one fed-up Richard Dawkins had gone off his rockers by losing his marbles. And I am an atheist, so that's saying something."
Carry-On
"Couple of points-Now I get it why Frontier Airlines CEO called passengers who avoid paying for carry-on baggage shoplifters. It was bound to happen seeing Marty overstaying his welcome in Ozark. While not exactly Collateral but I can see parallels in addition to modern techs, surveillance and setting. What bugged me was the fact that a detective failed the Wordle by doing an extensive Google search on 'Nov Chuck' and that transpired one of the most silly, weird and…"
The Penguin
"In the dimly-lit drab seedy underbelly of the ruined Gotham City post-deluge, Penguin's penchant for purple and immense love for his Ma stands out. What this show delivered was that it took a supervillain arc and developed it to emphasize betrayal, bad blood, loyalty, distrust, revenge and ambitions to Shakespearean proportions, sometimes even biblical. Where it went slightly wrong was it felt a bit rushed as if it was specifically designed like a bridge to serve as a paved causeway…"