Editor's Reviews
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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."
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."