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I May Destroy You
"Different colors and shades of a victim who is a fighter and all different kinds of people around her. Into the rabbit hole of trauma, revisit, state machinery, possibility and imagination of revenge, reenactment and closure or the lack of it."
Murder Mubarak
"Big Eat The Rich moment for Bollywood. I don't know why Merry Christmas got so hyped, maybe because of Raghavan's reputation, whereas this is the movie which should have garnered the buzz. By no means, it's an extraordinarily perfect murder mystery movie because it comes undoubtedly with a plot hole or two and got mired with an oversimplified twist at the end while the entire screenplay was forging something convoluted, but it is good, if not better than good. Takes…"
Merry Christmas
"Director- Sriram Raghavan. A movie that tries to be really clever with too little of a nonlinear plot peppered with very wooden performances. In fact, Vijay Sethupathi's performance was so wooden that he made Katrina Kaif look like Meryl Streep. As it is now clear that director Sriram Raghavan has a thing for French cinema, short films and French literature. The mind-blowing previous venture of his, Andhadhun was an inspiration from L'Accordeur, a 10-minute short film which he brilliantly added…"
OMG 2
"Satyam Shivam Sundaram. A well-intentioned movie which is not just a movie, it's an instrument for a cause and it's a fight. After all, the word conservative comes with a 'con' in it. That's the flight against. In a country, where every other movie has scenes of somebody slapping across the face of somebody else and nobody wags a finger because it has been so entrenched as an entitled of norm, this movie makes slaps taboo and makes taboo like…"
Revenge
"2017. A trippy, euphoric, bloody, brutal, violent rape revenge thriller filled with high octane drug-induced hallucinatory cat and mouse chase. Elevated by practical visuals and special effects, this movie is a no brainer, but in terms of color grading, camera works, music and makeup, it gives an escape medium like the title suggests."
Darlings
"It's the best Bollywood movie I have seen this year. If you want to know what happened to Kabir Singh after that movie ends, it's the follow-up. It takes a lot of nerves to satirize a topic of intimate partner violence. It answers very accurately why women go back to trap themselves even after they encounter domestic violence. There is no doubt in my mind now that Shefali Shah is the greatest actress of our generation and she is not…"
To Kill a Tiger
"Can anybody kill a tiger on his own? This year's Academy nominated documentary feature will forever go down on my list of most remarkable things I have ever watched that have come out of India. This documentary will hit you like a tree trunk and it shows where exactly we are lagging behind when it comes to POCSO cases. Writer-Director Nisha Pahuja's might is hard-hitting and palpable throughout its 2-hr runtime. She has shown tremendous fortitude while shooting an obscure…"
A River Runs Through It
""Eventually, all things merge into one and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters." How can any movie with those lines be a bad one? Brad Pitt's career has been the most fascinating one compared to his contemporaries, such…"
Joe Bell
"A sorrowful heartrending true story in which a father with traditional masculine traits makes a thousand mile journey all the way from Oregon to New York to figure out why homophobia and bullying is still a thing. In the end it has a message regarding an age old question- "what does it mean to be a man?". While the movie is emotionally very time bound, it misses all its marks due to straightforward ordinary screen writing. Instead the real story…"
Black Friday
"2nd watch. Banned and then got released in 2007. After the first film directed by Anurag Kashyap named Paanch got banned and Gulaal got mired in a long legal battle, one month before the release of his third movie Gulaal the director got the news that that one too was in the talks of getting proscribed and Kashyap was in suit to go for the premier and it weighed so heavy on him that for a month he didn't get…"
Tamasha
"The fractured psyche of Ranbir finally snaps to find his inner Neo and yank it out from the shell of Mr. Anderson. A well-meant concept gets directionless with cliched old recycled plot instruments. It's like Imtiaz Ali took the snippets and summary points of Wake Up Sid, Love Aaj Kal, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani and 3 Idiots, put them in a pressure cooker and gave 3 to 4 whistles. One can clearly see the point by point allusions of this…"
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…"