Editor's Reviews
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The Omen
"70s' survival thriller starring Danny Torrance's alter-ego."
Jesus Camp
"How to tame and train majestic free-spirited animals for the circus? Capture them young."
The Darjeeling Limited
"Eat, Prey, Love done right. Coming from an Indian, I can't even begin to explain how big of a deal it is. Turns out without pushing India as just a spiritual destination by getting it pigeonholed, the proper way was to make it a journey towards inner selves or even better, to make it about trying to catch a train and even after catching it, realising we might just get to experience just the one allotted compartment. If the whole thing was just a satire which I certainly wish for it to be, works even better for me."
His Three Daughters
"There is a level-headed one. There is a confrontational one with pressured-speech. And a free-spirited happy-go-lucky one. Had absolutely no doubt about the role of Natasha, no surprises there. Hollywood doesn't deserve Carrie since she has been snubbed for The Leftovers and countless other things and as for The Olsen sister, a little bit of Wanda came out for a second there but I wish she did more of these types of roles rather than playing a witch. The last 20-minutes could have been more subtle and a little less dramatic."
20th Century Women
"About women and for that matter men from different walks of life and from different waves of the same movement. One of those rare found-family in which the son knows more about the mother than the usual other way around. And a hilarious fight scene about a topic I have never seen in any movie before, though a fight I wish every man worth having at least once in a lifetime. 20th Century Women has an eye-opening scene in the…"
The Devil's Candy
"McConaughey-lookalike metalhead loses his grip on reality in Amityville style horror. But, the candy here is all about putting out the old flames of the moral panic that the devil somehow speaks through death metal and transgressive art."
The Kings of Summer
"Biaggio is the King. My 16-year-old self would have loved this Fight Club for angsty sulking teenagers. Started out great but fell into the overused traps in the second act and still managed to come out decent in the final act."
The Abyss
"Not for a minute did I believe that it was a movie from back when I wasn't even born yet. Unbelievable display of avant-garde technical superiority and direction skill the level of a champion who didn't know he would be one in the future. In hindsight, this movie was a prelude to what would be an innovator's reign in the Sci-Fi genre in the upcoming decades. And maybe, just maybe an allegory symbolizing the fall of the Berlin Wall."
The Happening
"Seriously??? My theory is- It was all an elaborate meta wet dream of Zuckerberg to expand and promote his user base to stick to the virtual world."
High Life
"A sick thought experiment that turns meditation into delirium while Pattinson's voiceover reverberates through the isolated heavens to the eternal ticking of the metaphorical watch. Only Americans could have thought of this with their misguided approach of retributive justice doled out with the privatized prison systems."
Killer Heat
"It seems official. Hollywood is unable to adapt any of the popular Jo Nesbø novels. This particular whodunit device they have been using for quite a while, they ought to put to an end because that has become a gimmick since it's been done and redone to death. P. S.- Although an overbaked plot, JGL continues to impress this year."
The Karate Kid Part III
"Mr. Miyagi was just a Yoda-incarnate."
The Karate Kid Part II
"Well, that was painfully uncomfortable."
Mona Lisa Smile
"Dead Poets Society for girls, women, wives and on sisterhood with a stacked cast. Except they had to fight their families and traditional norms and here it is a 360-degree fight with everything that moves. But, not upto the mark of that legendary Robin Williams classic."
My First Film
"Yeah. Esoteric, All right. A woman finds her own self and her agency without having to go through the literal looking glass."
A Knight's Tale
"A feel-good movie about how nobility and honor don't come from birth starring the late Heath Ledger in which Paul Bettany actually shines."
Signs
"See! That's why I don't believe in ghosts. Abigail Breslin was so cute that I forgot to focus on Gibson and Phoenix and the fact that it was supposed to be a Shyamalan movie."
The Last of Sheila
"The original Glass Onion if we are willing to let the occasional suspension of disbelief do its work in addition to make peace with the fact that misogyny, assault, harassment, unflinching attitude towards kiddy-diddlers were so casual to brush aside were products of the time."