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The Keepers
"So scathing so harrowing that it kept me pissed off throughout the entirety of the docuseries and after watching it, at every institution there is for the safety and security of the general public. Systemic, systematic and persistent abuse of power when an unchecked, unscrupulous and hierarchical religious structure replaces secular institutions as the moral arbiter through manipulation of age-old trusting nature. I am pretty hardened and almost never get teary-eyed while watching movies yet at the end my eyes…"
Longlegs
"We are officially way past the point of underlining again and again that Nic is Nuts. Carrying the torch from Mandy, Cage shows a tinge of the same weirdness here. A very Fincher/Pizzolatto (coincidentally with the same first name Nic) style crime mystery which crosses the line designated for thrillers out into the realm of straightaway psychological horror. I mean it's definitely not at par with Zodiac or Mindhunter or True Detective when it comes to its investigative elements but…"
Fall
"I mean it's no Free Solo and it would be even blasphemous to put this in the same sentence with that documentary but Fall made my acrophobia acting up with tingling feet and clammy palms, despite terrible and amateur performances. One cheerleader TikToker influencer type misguidedly states- "Life is short. Too short. You have to do something that makes you feel alive." And their first instinct ironically was- Let's make it shorter by climbing a 2000-ft-tall abandoned tower."
Twisters
"From Storm Chasers to Tornado Wranglers but with a Corporation vs Community angle, you know the current pop culture Zeitgeist. Passing Dorothy to the next generation. And by next generation I mean a bunch of cowboys from Yellowstone, hillbillies, a Superman without any superpower (at least not for now) and Miss Dandelion. Still it misses the mark by degrees in comparison to the original. Less about the twisters like the title suggests and more about trauma management. Starts as usual…"
Abducted in Plain Sight
"Either this guy knew the art of Jedi mind-trick or used some kind of enchantment spell. Anyway, so strange, so disturbingly strange that it was this close to become a documentary about some cult like Ant Hill Kids or Branch Davidians or Heaven's Gate. Although it was quite painful to watch, the whole thing felt like a cleansing or absolution for the elders. Every single one was at fault here except the victim. Bewildering, Infuriating and Horrific."
Twister
"Okay. Gotta admit, for a 90s movie which was all about spectacle, that was pretty good and thrilling. Then again, it's Jan de Bont we are talking about. Always wanted to watch something that had Philip Seymour Hoffman with the name Dusty and Bill Paxton with a character name, well, Bill. What this movie lacked in effects it tried to make up for with rousing metal score, like really really tried to an unbelievably maddening proportion and a 'tornadoes-outside-storms-inside' plot."
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
"One of those cases where the filmmaker does a much better job than the law enforcement. My only regret is that I watched that movie All Good Things before this, both of which funnily enough were directed by the same man and that might have desensitized the thrilling aspects for me a little bit."
Mandy
"It's like after eating mushroom gummies and getting lost in the collective imagination of Gaspar Noé, Lars Von Trier and Ben Wheatley if they were really into Splatterpunk. Trippy labyrinth of euphoria-induced psychedelic art with EMDR Light Therapy. Cultish, Hypnotic, Gruesome and Acid Rock Heavy Metal yet funny at times. Overall, probably the most insane movie I have watched recently, maybe for as long as I can remember. Or did I just dream the whole thing?"
MaXXXine
"In a full-circle moment what started as recapturing the classic slasher as the X franchise ends with a self-referential inter-textual bookend. An era accurate crime thriller by an up-and-comer Ti West which is not just about tying up together what the previous two installments started or about Easter eggs and tributes to the sexploitation period but also a commentary about and hat-tip to the backdrop the movie was set in, sheer terror invoked by certain serial killers, Censorship, Sex Wars…"
A Quiet Place: Day One
"Not exactly in competition with Tallahassee and Columbus's journey in search for Twinkies but both muffled cries and screaming at the top of lungs by a great cast under a grim spectacle of a reputed franchise on apocalypse will do. Even in a movie like this, Lupita Nyong'o acts like she is aiming for the statue. Eddie from Stranger Things and future Human Torch also did a really good job. Not as good as the original duology but delivers what…"
Fractured
"This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth."
Amar Singh Chamkila
"Social Evil or Punjabi Elvis? Mirza Malang or Vulgar or Messiah of The Oppressed? A foul-mouthed rebel or a cautionary tale? Whatever your opinions might have been about singers who have been receiving the ires of the society since time immemorial, one thing Ali's Amar Singh Chamkila tries to convey with its feet planted like an ancient tree that Chamkila's reflection was hard to gaze at because it's not a face rather a mirror held upto the mass. Hence, the…"
Greta
"Ineffectual. Heavy-handed. Worn-out. Not very strategic. A popular French actress plays a crazy lady in a cuckooland pretending to be French."
Churuli
"A mind-bending perilous journey to the cemetery. Lost on the unpaved squiggly winding never-ending repetitive paths of the labyrinthine corridors inside one's own brains. Nine circles of hell in Dante's Inferno- Limbo. Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Wrath. Heresy. Violence. Fraud. Treachery. Or is it simply Close Encounter of The Fourth and Fifth Kind. Horror. Mystery. Thriller. DMT-induced atmospheric delirium. God. Devil. Heaven. Hell. Creepy. Purgatory. Folklore. Legend. Ghosts. Ghouls. Power. Crime. Hierarchy. Uniform. Masculinity. Anger. Alcohol. Blood. Meat. Foul mouthed. Irascible.…"
The Karate Kid
"A robust case was made back in 1984 to support the idea that maybe what the US needs is a sensei more than it needs the second amendment. About how an old man saves a teenager and how the teenager saves the old man and a testament emboldening the necessity of positive influence in the form of father figures in society. ...And never to question the process of a tortoise or a red panda and certainly not a mysterious 60-year-old recluse from Okinawa. Effortlessly and smoothly made it to my comfort movie list."
Kill
"Train to Shamshaan. Tip of the Knife Through The Carotid into The Bloodied Violent Aisles and Corridors of The Coach. In a powerhouse display of a talented performance, Raghav Juyal surprises with his cold, callous and sociopathic villainy so much so that even all the flesh shredding, bone twisting, eye gouging, stabbing, whacking and bludgeoning, it all seemed muted and relegated to the background due to his acting. He proves that he is more than just a professional dancer or…"
The Bikeriders
"So, in a nutshell if you really think about it, Jodie Comer actually falls in love with the 1200cc V-twin engine, bedazzled leather jackets with zips, biker boots and the smell of engine oil and dirt. The Bikeriders is no Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud or not even Loving but the brilliant Jeff Nichols keeps his focus on the mental health, character traits and the psychological and cultural changes surrounding boys and men. A hooligans' manifesto that in reality is…"
The Convert
"God, Gold, Goods, women, Land, Tribes, Revenge, Honour, Union Jack, Crown, His Majesty... What else remains to fight for. Guy Pearce from joining a violent gang in The Proposition to wandering through a desolate post-apocalyptic earth in search of his stolen rusty vehicle in The Rover has come full circle in The Convert as a peace-loving reverend while manages to show all the shades of the characterisations from his previous stints too; preaching, sketching, marksmanship, reasoning, negotiation and rage. There…"