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Thelma
"Not just a frail old nonagenarian MEEMAW of Sheldon Cooper. This 94-year-old grandma got style. A funny, adorable but intrepid badass June Squibb takes us along on a heart-warming yet exciting journey swatting away boomer bashing and ageism while learning to ask for help as a sign of strength. A delightful surprise from 2024 that effortlessly put a smile on my face."
Mr. Brooks
"We Do Not Need To Talk About This KevinI was not signed up for a retelling of Jekyll and Hyde packaged in the serial killing genre. Sleek but synthetic. Too loud. Too many moving pieces. Not very strategic nor calculating or surgical. Why on earth was Demi Moore even in this one I couldn't understand."
Lost Girls
"What could have been lost in the mix of the prevalent style of a procedural for a serial murder investigation in the first act takes a sharp turn and for once does not just turn the victims into numbers to tickle our whodunit fancy rather Lost Girls in a serious effort puts them in a humane light to create fallible sympathetic characters surrounding the deceased so that the killer doesn't take occupy the centre stage. Amy Ryan's rabble-rouser mother gets…"
In the Cut
"Oh! Dear Sally, What have you gotten yourself into? Trying to touch every wavelength of light and every shade of color along with every peak and trough of the emotional bandwidth the characters could evoke, this psychological murder mystery thriller makes the whole thing DISARTICULATED especially with a ridiculous backstory. Many thanks to the writers for that word by the way. In The Cut but too deep for it to be called a surgery."
The Princess Bride
""Why are you wearing a mask?""I think everyone will be wearing them in the future."In hindsight, those lines were so prescient about the future of Cinema. Here I am a man past 30 trying to remember why I never watched this classic and couldn't shake the notion- Is it just me or The Princess Bride has quite a bit of resemblance to the Super Mario Bros. if only Mario and Bowser were this courteous and gentlemanly over fighting…"
Lowlifes
"Not to besmirch the name of the good folks up there in Canada, they made a weird violent bloody Canadian movie with characters from the southern United States. Trying real hard to be a serious but nonsensical version of Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Lowlifes couldn't make up its mind where it wanted to progress."
Purusha Pretham
"Good grief! Give the poor man a glass of orange juice. Forget about the progression of the plot, I was too anxious anticipating whether one protagonist would drink the juice or not by the end. Chelanellur Police Station. Susan Bobby vs State of Kerala. Habeas Corpus Petition No. 325/2017. Not forgetting this case anytime soon. What a compelling movie about a serious issue about the sorry state of law enforcement system yet the young newcomer filmmaker Krishand achieved it with…"
Abigail
"A classic case of- "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me." Don Rickles and The Rat Pack. Nice reference to the A-list showbiz group. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would but the third act could have been a little bold and experimental like the first act was. Re-established my fear of scary little girl ghouls. A fun subversion and open defiance on the decades worth of manuals on how to kill…"
Fish Tank
"What could have been dreaded as a disturbing turn of events, for once with a deep sigh took a very different approach in a show of Fassbender's range as if he already doesn't have enough under his hat and then it happens anyway when you put your guards down. Fish Tank sneaks up and pulls the rug out from under you by first praising the controversial R&B singer Bobby Womack and then pulling a Womack on screen in the most…"
Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum
"India's one of the finest gold rush moments since Gandhi had once stolen his brother's bracelet. Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum may seem like a whole ordeal worth just 16 gm of gold but it transforms into a midas touch for an already prevailing and shining New Generation Malayalam Cinema Movement. What initially begins as an unconventional plot with amusing characters and their quirks gives deep philosophical lessons but with the degree of simplicity and subtlety which is a rare currency to be…"
Mean Creek
"What if King wrote a different version of 'The Body' and years later instead of Wil Wheaton, one of the Culkin brothers starred in an even darker 'Stand By Me' than it already was. What if The Losers' club doesn't get to be terrorized by Pennywise rather the plot revolves around Henry from the Bowers Club and instead of a dancing clown the real culprits are the community elders whose bullying often go unchecked imposing serious repercussions on the youth.…"
Aftersun
""I think it's nice that we share the same sky."- AftersunWhen everyone will remember 2022 for Top Gun: Maverick or Everything Everywhere All at Once or The Batman, let's make sure Aftersun doesn't get lost in the mix. The longer this movie went on the more I wished for it to never end.A movie with a documentary-style precision that is in fact an ode to fatherhood, love, loss, and grief along with making up for lost time and…"
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
"Hot Take- What I anticipated and was promised by George Miller and not got delivered by Furiosa I got to a greater extent with Kingdom of The Planet of The Apes. Here is a list of 10 things Kingdom delivers-1. This standalone sequel says more about the current fractured socio-political landscape of a divided US than Alex Garland's Civil War. Two different sides trying to capture the narrative by interpreting the Founding Father's vision in their own preferred ways…"
The Nightingale
"What starts as a lullaby must end with a bloodbath in a world where revenge is the age-old force of nature and the only equalizing force. Acclaimed Australian director Jennifer Kent presents a no-holds-barred approach to showcase unrestrained inhumane treatment meted out to women and the indigenous in the form of blood-curdling brutality as a metaphor for taming the wilderness of the uncharted new world and a complete apathy to horrendous degree of violence. Although The Nightingale is no "The…"
Joji
"With a son like this who needs a historical recollection of Ajatashatru. It is not the first time a new rendition of Macbeth has been adapted to the screen since the play itself has been here for the past four hundred years and Joji definitely has those Macbeth tinged elements especially with its characters that defined the famous play written by Shakespeare but what makes Syam Pushkaran's writing different and special is its grounded approach in a everyday sort of…"
Jal Tu Jalaal Tu
"Never thought the interminable ringing of an office call bell can be this much maddening that it started to feel like needles piercing into my brain. How a simple act of natural human instinct can inadvertently be taxing and can snowball into a life-changing upheaval when the genuine feeling of being happy for other people gets vanished in the quagmire of hectic strenuous setting and work overload that reduces fellow humans into automatons without considering the basic decency they may…"
Fright Night
"The Last Temptation of The Count...The same year in an alternate dimension when Marty McFly instead of going to Doc Brown accidentally gets mixed up with some bad apples. Coincidentally, a young Christopher Lloyd lookalike Stephen Geoffreys also plays an amateur-level gadget-savvy bozo who is not the smartest egg in the basket. Back when Hollywood was on the verge of severing its ties yet not quite over with its Mid-Atlantic accent but open enough to experiment on a long…"
The Taste of Things
"Equal parts bucolic and melancholic. One part of the world experiences summer while at the same time in other parts autumn reigns. Dovetail that into the hearts and you got yourself The Taste of Things. A movie that is mostly atmospheric and about the so-called vibe when it could have been a little bit more about the characters who inhabit it. Long expressive dialogues about recipes, dishes and dreams, a touch of the surrounding meanwhile Taste of Things speaks very…"