Editor's Reviews
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Greta
"Ineffectual. Heavy-handed. Worn-out. Not very strategic. A popular French actress plays a crazy lady in a cuckooland pretending to be French."
Churuli
"A mind-bending perilous journey to the cemetery. Lost on the unpaved squiggly winding never-ending repetitive paths of the labyrinthine corridors inside one's own brains. Nine circles of hell in Dante's Inferno- Limbo. Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Wrath. Heresy. Violence. Fraud. Treachery. Or is it simply Close Encounter of The Fourth and Fifth Kind. Horror. Mystery. Thriller. DMT-induced atmospheric delirium. God. Devil. Heaven. Hell. Creepy. Purgatory. Folklore. Legend. Ghosts. Ghouls. Power. Crime. Hierarchy. Uniform. Masculinity. Anger. Alcohol. Blood. Meat. Foul mouthed. Irascible.…"
The Karate Kid
"A robust case was made back in 1984 to support the idea that maybe what the US needs is a sensei more than it needs the second amendment. About how an old man saves a teenager and how the teenager saves the old man and a testament emboldening the necessity of positive influence in the form of father figures in society. ...And never to question the process of a tortoise or a red panda and certainly not a mysterious 60-year-old recluse from Okinawa. Effortlessly and smoothly made it to my comfort movie list."
Kill
"Train to Shamshaan. Tip of the Knife Through The Carotid into The Bloodied Violent Aisles and Corridors of The Coach. In a powerhouse display of a talented performance, Raghav Juyal surprises with his cold, callous and sociopathic villainy so much so that even all the flesh shredding, bone twisting, eye gouging, stabbing, whacking and bludgeoning, it all seemed muted and relegated to the background due to his acting. He proves that he is more than just a professional dancer or…"
The Bikeriders
"So, in a nutshell if you really think about it, Jodie Comer actually falls in love with the 1200cc V-twin engine, bedazzled leather jackets with zips, biker boots and the smell of engine oil and dirt. The Bikeriders is no Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud or not even Loving but the brilliant Jeff Nichols keeps his focus on the mental health, character traits and the psychological and cultural changes surrounding boys and men. A hooligans' manifesto that in reality is…"
The Convert
"God, Gold, Goods, women, Land, Tribes, Revenge, Honour, Union Jack, Crown, His Majesty... What else remains to fight for. Guy Pearce from joining a violent gang in The Proposition to wandering through a desolate post-apocalyptic earth in search of his stolen rusty vehicle in The Rover has come full circle in The Convert as a peace-loving reverend while manages to show all the shades of the characterisations from his previous stints too; preaching, sketching, marksmanship, reasoning, negotiation and rage. There…"
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…"