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Men in Black 3
"Less of the humor, more of the heart. Plus all the shenanigans based on the contemporary popular concepts. Before this never came to my mind that how uncannily similar Brolin and Tommy Lee are in terms of character choices and how Hollywood always finds a way to keep them separate from each other even when they are in the same movies."
Men in Black II
"Funnier than the prequel. Greater stakes. Frank easily outshines Kay. But, disjointed."
Men in Black
"No role is out of bounds for Tommy Lee Jones. Not even deadpan humor."
Borderlands
"Never had an ounce of doubt that Eli Roth wouldn't bungle this video game adaptation as it has been quite quintessential looking at his filmography. But as far as interplanetary space opera goes, it still beats Rebel Moon by a mark despite the fact that Borderlands has an atrocious level of formulaic character development. Even the effects during the climax were pretty cartoonishly juvenile and very gaming standard. Seriously, Cate has to go back to the drama genre. She is too good to be performing in front of green screens."
The Zone of Interest
"The banality of evil. Inducing terror through haunting sound design, verdant landscapes, daily errands and sophisticated etiquettes while all of the horror gets evoked from the anxiety due to the unseen nature of events but quite palpable noises erupted from the background of the monotonous casual rituals going about in the front. Definitely one amongst the superior kinds of Holocaust movies."
Trap
"Like the title alludes to and the trailer suggested there is such a thing as too much stage-managed. Too many coincidences. Too simplistic. Same predictable story devices. Just one Shyamalan giving a break to another Shyamalan in another one of his movies in the same year."
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…"