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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
"The most wonderfully gorgeous yet hauntingly romantic movie I have watched in recent years. Amazing performances, melancholic theme, remarkable ending. Truly at its core, watching this masterpiece was like focusing on the intricate brush strokes on a painting for days. Never saw anything even remotely this beautiful and somber lately since as far back as I can remember. It's like visualizing the story as it is unfolding inside Céline Sciamma's dream. Fiery, fervent and passionate performances by both Noémie Merlant…"
BlackBerry
"Bingo! Now that's what I call an entrepreneurial biographical drama. People should have talked about this movie in an obstreperous manner in the place of that overinflating big star-studded AIR. The story of the most popular cellphone's rise and fall in just two hours. From more than 40% market capture to now zero. Taking a leaf from the popular similar-styled movies life The Social Network, the grossly underrated The Founder, Molly's Game, Steve Jobs and Pirates of The Silicon Valley,…"
Till Death
"An exemplary display of sound execution when there isn't enough substance. Very clever in its approaches, especially in direction and editing, Till Death is all about heart-racing, nail-biting instances with constant near-miss cat and mouse scenarios. Megan Fox literally tied to the embodiment of the phrase 'Till death do us part', hence the name. It is a decent movie of Megan Fox since the grossly misunderstood Jennifer's Body. Unfortunately her performance though is nothing but plastic. Even in scenes, where…"
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
"A lesson in the significance of Canon. Categorical moral imperative vs consequentialist morality. Spiderman style. A super important step in the world of animation with sparkly multi-colored glorious gallimaufry chameleonic multiverse marvel. But, only on a technical expertise level. That's all. I concede the third act is a wonderful spectacle and stupendous music except for the overused motivational force that further the plot. It's the same as Kang's and No Way Home. A movie that has somewhat similar motivations to…"
Burn After Reading
"Pretty much explains the operating principle of the US, leader of the free world on an international level with the use of its top clandestine intelligence agency that works like a hammer and therefore sees nails everywhere. Making a molehill out of nothing. Hilarious, situational and unbelievable. The finest chemistry between a cartoonish Brad Pitt and an effortlessly hilarious Frances McDormand. John Malkovich, well he is the same John Malkovich. An anxiety-ridden impulsive George Clooney falling from grace. With this…"
Sisu
"The purpose of this movie is preordained in its meaning of the title- Sisu. Definitely gnarly and visceral in its stylized graphic violence, this movie is insane like preposterously insane. An action flick that is terror-invoking on magic mushrooms. It's like if classics by the great Sergio Leone's westerns had a modern retelling on the line of John Wick but with a nordic touch life The Northman and an overall violent style of Tarantino but in an outlandishly contrived way.…"
Doctor G
"A treatise in search for the 'Real' men, whatever that is supposed to be. It also touches the issue of medico-legal ethics. It's a movie about the anatomy and physiology of females but the lesson is marketed towards males. There is a book by the name- "Everything Men Know About Women" By Dr. Alan Francis with consultation from Cindy Cashman and it consists of 120 crisp blank pages, because that's how much the general male populace knows about female anatomy…"
The Bone Collector
"At this point, there aren't too many Denzel Washington movies remaining for me that I haven't watched already. So, this one I picked which I keep forgetting about since I started watching all his classics. And it is one of the worst movies of his, with the most rundown overused plot twists and subpar acting by a fairly newcomer Angelina Jolie. Denzel as usual gave a fiery performance, it's just that there is no meat when it comes to the plot. Let's just leave it at that."
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
"James Gunn's ode to the MCU is at best a warning documentary for the PETA and is a show of his conscience against vivisection as well as human lab trials. I sat down thinking this is it. It would be the redemption story of all the dwindling and precarious foundation that the MCU Phase 4 has laid till now. But, it goes nowhere near the first two volumes in terms of quality let alone redemption. First the good. Rocket's previously…"
John Wick: Chapter 4
"A weaker first and second acts with a firework of a third act, Literally. Chad Stahelski along with Keanu go from Continental to Inter-Continental to, in this chapter Transcontinental, meanwhile John Wick goes full berserk. The first chapter was about plain old revenge, the second was about survival, the third installment was about redemption, but this chapter is all about wrath and going for the snake's head but also about reconciliation and common foe. One major problem of this part…"
Werewolves Within
"The funniest movie I have watched so far this year. Taking huge inspirations from Edgar Wright and Shane Black, this movie perfectly mixes the darker elements with the comedic ones. A parody on the Bible verse- Thou shalt love thy neighbor like you love thyself. A satire on the current societal environment where intolerance is the go-to way and nobody believes in giving the benefit of doubt to the person in question, while tearing the fabric of the peaceful community…"
Luckiest Girl Alive
"Thank God I didn't get swayed by Booktube and Oprah's Book Club and avoided the trap of actually buying the book."
Son of Saul
"Academy winner for best foreign movie and the Grand Prix winner in Cannes Film Festival. I have watched a fair share of Holocaust movies, and it would be an understatement to claim that Son of Saul is the most wonderfully disgusting one since The Pianist by Roman Polanski. And that was back in 2002. First, I must mention here that when we talk about the classics, like- Spielberg's Schindler's List or Polanski's The Pianist, amazingly performed by Adrien Brody for…"
Babylon
"In years to come this mostly criticized and polarized movie will be studied as the deconstruction of the inner workings of the rose-tinted Tinsel Town in a time capsule format excavated in the 21st century. Brad Pitt still manages to amaze somehow constantly since as far back as the 90s and yet here we are with that monologue feeling like a dagger to the heart and Robbie showing all sorts of colors in a show of what her training has been about lately. Although what stayed with me was the background score and the massive scale of production design."
The Pledge
"Less about the antagonist, More about the obsession of the protagonist who is after him. A rare avatar donned by Nicholson."
2001: A Space Odyssey
"Arthur C. Clarke's another work Childhood's End would be a great companion piece to this futuristic movie which was without a doubt way ahead of its time. I still can't believe he pulled this off even before we landed on the moon. And I fully empathize with those people who ran across the theatre aisles when it was released for the first time, shouting- "It's God!! It's God!!!" I would have done the same, except decades later we now know…"
The Big Lebowski
"Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher's kink. Jeff Bridges started a religion by the name Dudeism and Walter is the greatest John Goodman role I have ever seen. Opposite to the 'Eat The Rich' genre with a social satire that cuts deep. Never thought I get to watch a Coen Brothers movie like this. But then I also came across Burn After Reading."
Inside Llewyn Davis
"A pair of genuinely perfect bookends for the journey of rediscovery of a tortured artist's self and a forgotten talent in the eroding fading universe of folk songs. In between those Inside Llewyn Davis deals with grief and trauma pushing to a tipping point of self-destruction and revert to the point of origin in the cycle. This is without a doubt the greatest performance of Oscar Issac in his entire filmography, before he lost himself in the games organized by…"