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May December
"The most brutally honest portrayal of the gray areas of Hebephilia and its consequences on the later part of life if a formal relationship is built upon that. This movie is so uncomfortable that it might question the bedrock of societal rule about punishment, power imbalances based on age and our view on redemption, second chances and assimilation of the perpetrators back into the society after the punitive damages. Directed by Todd Haynes, the esteemed one known for his very…"
You Hurt My Feelings
"Another surprise of this year. This is a grounded reality of a couple's relationship in a snow globe where the town in the globe isn't a fairy tale one. Realistic to the letter, the movie explores all the awkward details people have to navigate when walking around your dear ones without making them feel bad. The fear of it, insecurities, validation that come along with the dreamy unattainable supposed happy life which is at the top of everybody's ultimate to-do…"
Dream Scenario
"Nic Cage ventured into his path of career redemption a while back and he hasn't looked back since and this movie just proves how far he has come. A satire about cancel culture, social boycott, isolating an accused despite tall tales of presumption of innocence and blaming all the culture war stuff by putting a face to the punching bag; this story puts it perfectly. So, perfectly that despite being a black comedy it would terrify the concerning ones. An…"
Our Idiot Brother
"This Big Lebowski version of a charming folksy overtly optimistic Paul Rudd will steal your heart. A dysfunctional family dynamic with each member having their own problems to solve, while their marriage, relationships, jobs hang in the balance while a bum carefree happy-go-lucky brother is just flying through the life full stoic way. It will leave a smile on your face at the end without being the usual happily ever after trope but embracing a more realistic one with a…"
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
"This is the worst thing I have watched this year. The actors are terrible, so terrible that they collectively took Charlie Hunnam down with them. Frankly, I don't even know what he was doing in this turdville. Zack Snyder isn't over his obsession with Superman which is clear the way he created the protagonist in this movie, same character arc just gender-swapped. Cliched dialogues, CGI-heavy atmosphere which made me nauseated because of their artificiality and second-grade coloring and lighting, a…"
Jaane Jaan
"If you are a fan of the movie Drishyam, don't watch this. There is a chance that you might start second guessing whether that choice was correct in the first place. A movie that is very less Kahani and much more Durga Rani Singh. It seems Sujoy Ghosh's Achilles tendon hasn't been healed yet, since the mediocre projects after the unparalleled Vidya Balan's starrer. An adaptation of the very famous novel The Devotion of The Suspect X, after a myriad…"
Thanksgiving
"Duped by the glowing reviews of Indiewire and Guardian. An overrated slasher imitation of an alloy consisting of details of movies like Halloween and Scream, that was fawned over by salivating critics so much that for a minute I doubted myself and questioned my opinion about Eli Roth, the director who brought us Cabin Fever, Hostel and Hostel 2 and Knock Knock. You know the kind of movies they used to show in X-rated back alley sheds. Eli has a…"
While We Watched
"An underwhelming big dull dud. The documentary doesn't show anything new that we haven't already seen. This was targeted particularly for foreign audiences who have no idea what had been going on here. While We Watched is at its best when it shows a fading journalist cornered out of mainstream media and into the YouTube journalism while not portraying it as a hagiography and at its worst because it preaches to the choir about the long prostration that the Indian…"
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
"A fatuously trite and bromidic ballad that felt like an elegy being recited at my funeral. A movie that doesn't know why it exists. Tonally confusing and all over the place in terms of themes. Enough with the overusing of star-crossed lovers from class difference turning into mortal enemies. It has long overstayed its welcome. Except for Viola Davis, nothing is here to be worth the taking. Terrible."
Dolores Claiborne
"An average story done in the right way. Stephen King is often accused of writing women in a very shallow way, that is often as victims or damsels in distress. Here we go, a complex characterization of a mother-daughter relationship with resentment and hostility stemming from a dark repressed past buried deep inside the minds. Kathy Bates donned her Misery hat but with a protective grace for a daughter who hates her. Jennifer Jason Leigh was fairly new and was…"
The Baader Meinhof Complex
"This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth."
This Is Where I Leave You
"A crowd pleaser with no realistic nuances where everybody gets what they deserve. Tumultuous siblings and parents relationship and how a man fallen-from-grace navigates through that rough waters with a tinge of dry humor."
The Burning Girls
"I think it was Neil Gaiman who said that Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. Well, this one is written by a woman. C. J. Tudor is a famous mystery thriller horror writer and from her book of the same name this has been adapted. A village and the skeletons it possesses by tormenting and subjugating free-spirited women hidden directly underneath the feet of…"
Apocalypse Now
"This is what happens when Coppola puts his own money into an obsession of his without writing a screenplay, just scribbling on the margins of his worn-out copy of Heart of Darkness by Conrad. One of the most amazing experience of mine would probably remain watching Robert Duval be the cigar-totting face of the Military Industrial Complex. Nonchalant, cartoonish, apathetic. While a skinhead Brando pouring water on his head and monologuing would be one of the most surreal experiences of…"
Room
"Showing our planet through the eyes of Jacob Tremblay. A difficult yet poignant story about the love of a child for his mother. The statue well-deserved."
The Squid and the Whale
"This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth."
Lessons in Chemistry
"The enigma that is Brie Larson has struck again. A treatise in feminist theory about strong, powerful, confident and resilient women and a girl, all of whom were stuck in the wrong era where sexism and casual as well as overt and explicit misogyny were the staple diet. As the main character of the show states- "I stand proudly with the overlooked workhorse of the kitchen, women and potatoes." A show that not only is about girlhood and womanhood, but…"
Good Night, and Good Luck.
"Was this movie supposed to make us feel bad about how journalistic integrity and objectivity has gone to the gutters lately? Because, congratulations! It did succeed."