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Juror #2
"You know just for the fun of it and of course for realistic experience, once in my life I want to see the studios and the producers hire some famous actors who would get rejected from serving on a jury. That character who says, "Fine. Fine, but it's a waste of time. Any other group of 12 people would arrive at the exact same decision we did", clearly has no idea about Lumet nor Fonda. A movie that plays balance…"
Bodkin
"An old wives' tale started quite seriously and thrillingly but got so tangled up in its past secrets that it got lost just with in three episodes due to its borrowed repetitive patterns and a pay off which was a big dull dud."
Ricky Stanicky
"Peacemaker without Gunn in one of those Hangover movies."
CTRL
"I would rather have re-watched any episode of Black Mirror or the hyper-realistic BBC thriller The Capture. But, in terms of exploring new avenue and getting out of the rut Bollywood has been in for quite some time, at least it's a step outside of the usual Bollywood tropes and genres. Gotta give that much to Motwane."
Don't Move
"Never seen a perp leave so much DNA behind at the crime scenes."
The Apprentice
"At least now we know from where the orange complexion came from and all the pathologies..."
Next Exit
"What begins as a "journey not the destination" story by clinching on strand of The Leftovers rope soon chose to drive on the path of usual trauma dumping and therapy."
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
"So, that's the motivation behind a whole new sequel we are going with? Corpse Bride and furthering the trope- "It's the quiet ones you should always watch out for." I wish for Burton to hark back to his 90s and early 2000s.It's just an intertextual photo album with references after references with an ode to the '88. What is worth mentioning here is the fact that even after constant fussing about the barrage of reboots and sequels, somehow the…"
Beetlejuice
"The US's failed attempt at introducing free market capitalism and mall culture to the world of spirits."
Bookworm
"Frodo and a precocious pre-teen with whip-cracking wit and dry humor in a spiritual successor of Hunt For The Wilder People that is both heart-warming as well as sensible even though the tone in the final act becomes a tiny bit incongruent. Nell Fisher has effortlessly the funniest role of 2024 and it amazed me even more considering her role in Evil Dead Rise last year."
Cure
"Cure broke my brain and possibly be the nerve-wracking agent that will haunt me for the rest of my life, not because of its horror or surreal elements which are already pretty sparse in the movie itself rather because what it is trying to convey and what might be the meaning of it all. There is an unsettlingly strange calmness about the technical side of things in Cure which spooked me; maybe because I never experienced it before quite in that way when it comes to this specific subject matter. Well, maybe in Burning."
Transformers One
"The Marvelization of the action figures by going back to the roots but that also means a cocktail of all the tried and tested methods for plot devices. But works better than whatever indulgence Michael Bay was having."
It's What's Inside
"Don't know how Charlie Kaufman or Gaspar Noé would feel about taking their phenomenological device of a brainchild and turning it into an episode of The Bachelor but I get it why it's so much fun for many people."
Strange Darling
"Earlier this year The Passenger really astounded me with a terrifying Kyle Gallner. So, by keeping that in mind I sat down to watch this and imagine my surprise when Willa Fitzgerald comes at the top by a considerable margin outshining Gallner with a sick and twisted performance enough to induce nightmares until my next horror movie, in addition to an amazing soundtrack collection."
Woman of the Hour
"Reflects more on the cringey 70s reality TV with their casual misogyny, sexual harassment, unusual advances and normalcy of the traditional manosphere than that of the gruesome case based on real events. Might as well have titled it- Promising Young Woman 2. Anyways, pretty good for Anna Kendrick as a debut director. A special mention to Daniel Zovatto."
The Wild Robot
".... And here I thought the world might be too small for two Goslings. .... And an ark Noah would have been envious of. P. S. - While a part of me has always been sad that Roger Zelazny's For A Breath I Tarry was never put to screen, I am glad that The Wild Robot is as close to it as it gets."
Caddo Lake
"Although the idea isn't exactly new and fresh and the concept has been out there for quite a while, along with shaky character development which can be attributed to the runtime (I mean it's not a TV show after all), they did execute the whole thing in a well-rounded manner. Finally something worthwhile comes out of the Shyamalan camp and he is not even at the helm."
Never Let Go
"Kool-Aid or not, it has a funny taste because of the same overused ancient scriptural pallid ingredients."