Editor's Reviews
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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…"
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."