Editor's Reviews
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Eighth Grade
"The mother of all coming-of-age movies. Major critics have long been pointing out that the most accurate and realistic depiction of the early teenage angst has never been put to the screen like this 2018 movie by a debutant director, and i agree. I have never watched this grounded version of a much used topic which could have easily misfired, yet Burnham puts it in 2nd gear and never cranks it up and in the process provides us the most…"
Argylle
"I will get right to the point. We are in the first quarter of 2024 and yet, I have found this year's stupidest and Matthew Vaughn's career worst movie. A witty Sam Rockwell, who by the way is the only good thing about this movie which is just saturated with guest appearances with the ginger head who has had a previous experience in dinosaur hunting. Cheesy recycled dialogues from movies like Rocky and Kingsmen-like action sequences, emphasis on 'like' because…"
Leave the World Behind
"The rapture will be brought forth on humanity, not by the gods but by the us puny humans ourselves. A dress rehearsal for doomsday preppers that is better than Shyamalan's Knock At The Cabin."
Mean Girls
"Tina Fey's 2004 original Mean Girls gets a musical makeover and it's good. Angourie Rice is the new Lindsay Lohan and the new movie gets a little better every time somebody starts singing. I mean it has Auli'i Carvalho for Pete's sake. Funny at times and glittery at others with perfectly peppered with fantastic music, this show can put you in the headspace of teenage girls. Friendship, stereotypical cliques in a college setting, great teachers, minority stats and being yourself are some of the themes here. But, the music is just fantastic. An entertaining movie with quirky weirdos."
Devs
"Miniseries. 8 episodes. A gorgeously flawed series due to its self-defeating concept of complex philosophy and quantum physics revolving around free will as an illusion and its advocating of superdeterminism. Directed by the visionary Hollywood director Alex Garland from the fame of Ex Machina and Annihilation, the series could have gone on a Nolan-styled path but in the end it failed to fire from all cylinders. Concept-wise, no doubt it is futuristic and Nick Offerman along with Alison Pill gave…"
Baishe Srabon
"Director- Srijit Mukherji. Poetry and a serial killer. This Bengali movie came heavily recommended and uses an interesting premise for a murder mystery without being exploitative. But, it falls right into the box of extreme predictability. A buddy cop drama about an irascible cop and his unusual mentor-mentee relationship with a disgraced vigilante supercop. The famous Bengali movie stars Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee and Raima Sen gave their trademark style performance but the movie falls woefully short of reaching even…"
NH10
"A vengeful Anushka dismantles the violent masculine testosterone-filled rage and burns it into the ground in this very simple yet well executed vacation-gone-wrong thriller and smokes a cigarette in peace afterwards. This movie acts as an antidote to movies like Kabir Singh and such and i am not saying this just to pick up a frivolous fight by being unnecessarily bellicose. I make the distinction because whatever Kiara Advani had to endure in that movie was nothing in comparison to…"
The Iron Claw
"Somebody please suggest this movie to Sandeep Reddy. An important lesson in the corrosive nature of aggressive masculinity, but here is the fresh take. Instead of a husband-wife Or employer-employee dynamic, the real villain here is the hyper-disciplinarian patriarch, the father. By the time the movie ends, you will have nothing but sympathy for the sons. Zac Efron did a very fine job playing Kevin Von Erich and Holt McCallany from the fame of Mindhunters also played his part pretty…"
Jai Bhim
""Bring forth change. No one is a god here. No need for garlands."- reads a board inside the court premise in a scene of Jai Bhim. "Down with unlawful violations"- the protagonist who happens to be a lawyer shouts at an irascible squad of cops. There are framed photos of Karl Marx, B. R. Ambedkar and Periyar in that order hanging on his wall. As if these aren't enough, multiple scenes of red flags with hammer and sickle on them…"
Past Lives
"When we realize, this is it and the game has no Try Again option. The very first movie that made me think in what language do I dream."
Amores Perros
"Mexican psychological drama. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's magic sparked in the early days. First installment in the critically acclaimed Death Trilogy. Later it transformed into 21 Grams starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro and Babel starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Same with this movie but better with the shaky camera close to the movements, interwoven complex stories intermingled with character development. I went into hoping for a performance by Gael Garcia but got amazed by the performance of Emilio Echevarria. Hyperlink narrative style of cinema structure along with social commentary about animal cruelty and crime and trauma. Must watch."
Angel Heart
"Scary but not in a typical horror kind of way. Micky Rourke was an ever-running ever-chasing nightmare and the good kind. Goes on to solidify my idea that given a 10 minutes screening time sharing the stage with Robert De Niro can do wonders. De Niro is stylish and scary. Mind bending movie with religious overtone and not for everyone. Very clever and mind-bending."
The Black Dahlia
"A caricature of a tragedy. One of the worst movies I have watched in my entire life and that too by a legendary director who lost his touch after the 20th century. Brian De Palma. Even acclaimed actresses like Scarlet Johansson and Hillary Swank's roles are cartoonish. Strongly recommending against."
Anyone But You
"This movie is so unbelievably stupid that immediately afterwards I had to read a science book to generate new neural pathways inside my brain. What's even more disappointing is the fact that an actress with the calibre of Sydney Sweeney would go for such a role."
American Fiction
"A wonderfully extraordinary movie I have watched in recent years that is fun yet fiercely thought-provoking, so much so that i can't believe I am currently living in an era in which these types of movies are released. What a unique fun premise with a message searing and seething enough to strike up heated conversations among different races. I love this new color on Jeffrey Wright. It's like a one-eighty from what he did as Bernard in Westworld and Gordon…"
Red Rooms
"Outrageous, flagrant and devilish without the supernatural. Calculating and cunning performance by a inscrutably blank Juliette until the third act when she explodes. I have to thank Marianna Neal for this recommendation."
Nayattu
"Whoa!!!!! A slow burn in the disguise of a long ensuing chase because of extenuating circumstances, but here is the secret sauce, it is not at all a sprint, it is a marathon. Now that's a movie worth discussing. Under the deafening sloganeering of kaaryakarta, justice is just a redundant footnote here. The ending kind of shook me and I will be reeling under that shock for quite a few days for sure simmering in negative thoughts and wracking my…"
The Royal Hotel
"A Chekhov's gun where Humans are the gun and women are the target. Waited for the entire screen time for shots to be fired, but does the gun goes off or not at the end, that would be a spoiler now isn't it? Doesn't make you question about the bravery or the stupidity of these girls, rather it puts the surrounding inhabited by creeps on the spotlight. Julia Garner continues with her amazing streak."