Editor's Reviews
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The Black Dahlia
"A caricature of a tragedy. One of the worst movies I have watched in my entire life and that too by a legendary director who lost his touch after the 20th century. Brian De Palma. Even acclaimed actresses like Scarlet Johansson and Hillary Swank's roles are cartoonish. Strongly recommending against."
Anyone But You
"This movie is so unbelievably stupid that immediately afterwards I had to read a science book to generate new neural pathways inside my brain. What's even more disappointing is the fact that an actress with the calibre of Sydney Sweeney would go for such a role."
American Fiction
"A wonderfully extraordinary movie I have watched in recent years that is fun yet fiercely thought-provoking, so much so that i can't believe I am currently living in an era in which these types of movies are released. What a unique fun premise with a message searing and seething enough to strike up heated conversations among different races. I love this new color on Jeffrey Wright. It's like a one-eighty from what he did as Bernard in Westworld and Gordon…"
Red Rooms
"Outrageous, flagrant and devilish without the supernatural. Calculating and cunning performance by a inscrutably blank Juliette until the third act when she explodes. I have to thank Marianna Neal for this recommendation."
Nayattu
"Whoa!!!!! A slow burn in the disguise of a long ensuing chase because of extenuating circumstances, but here is the secret sauce, it is not at all a sprint, it is a marathon. Now that's a movie worth discussing. Under the deafening sloganeering of kaaryakarta, justice is just a redundant footnote here. The ending kind of shook me and I will be reeling under that shock for quite a few days for sure simmering in negative thoughts and wracking my…"
The Royal Hotel
"A Chekhov's gun where Humans are the gun and women are the target. Waited for the entire screen time for shots to be fired, but does the gun goes off or not at the end, that would be a spoiler now isn't it? Doesn't make you question about the bravery or the stupidity of these girls, rather it puts the surrounding inhabited by creeps on the spotlight. Julia Garner continues with her amazing streak."
Khufiya
"Vishal Bhardwaj, losing his mojo one movie at a time since the release of Haider. What could have been a thrilling espionage film, and believe me some aspects of it still are, soon marred with gaudy dialogues and ridiculous performances not just by the newcomers. Good eggs such as Tabu and Ali Fazal too gave this extravagantly exaggerated acting that added to that ridiculousness. From where Bhardwaj has been getting these supporting actors, I don't know but my guess is…"
Napoleon
"Megalomaniacal tyrant, lover and son of soil. From ruffian to gunnery to Brigadier General to First Consul to Emperor to a disgraced exiled king. This movie is a disjointed misfortune of a biography of the prodigal son of France who let hubris got the best of him. Ridley Scott has long been out of his touch, like 16 years long from the release of American Gangster in 2007, only to be resurrected every now and then, by the likes of…"
Influencer
"Not as bad as I thought it would be going in. About the fast fashion online brand era we are living in. Narcissism, self-centred behavior and insta envy soaked crime thriller. Good one but could have been better during the third act which got infested with simplistic cliched instruments of a plot progression."
Eileen
"Now this is a movie everyone should be talking about. Feminine rage done right. Anne Hathaway is like an assassin's dagger, deadly yet effective but even doubly so when she is a blonde. But, Thomasin McKenzie did most of the heavy lifting. This young starlet will be a long distance runner with her very specific style of movie choices. First Leave No Trace then Jojo Rabbit then The Last Night in Soho then The Power of The Dog and now…"
Passion
"Another Brain De Palma misfire. But, both the actresses were good."
The Night of the 12th
"This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth."
The Martian
"Still pissed that Scott left the most nail-biting scene from the book of Mark Watney riding into a giant sand storm. Nevertheless, it holds the record for the first Sci-Fi movie to be nominated in the Best Picture Category. Nobody could have embodied Space Pirate like Dr. Mann from Interstellar."
Sharper
"The protracted breadth of a long con. Flim flam, gambit or stratagem or whatever you may wanna call it. This movie is an entertainer with two great actors at the helm. Julianne Moore, the red headed enigma who can shapeshift into any role that demands any sort of panache and Sebastian Stan who is slick and menacing at the same time but overshadowed by the veteran actress. This movie fell short of being a primer of double cross and the…"
Killers of the Flower Moon
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Scorsese's revenge on the manifest destiny and the white man's burden ( the simulacrum of it or the microcosm of it, in the least). Killers of The Flower Moon, more like Wretched of The Earth. The long forgotten screams and the empty stares of the Osage tribe that still echo from the flat uphill meadows through the cracks of mountains. When each breath flutters coarsely inside every pocket of the lungs and body shudders…"
Beau Is Afraid
"Not an easy movie to wrap your head around since it's surrealism at its weirdest in 2023 but worth watching because the direction, storytelling and acting all are out of this world. Joaquin always involves himself in new and risky experiments. Ari Aster shines in the midst of convoluted soup of chaos. Masterfully directed and acted to the fullest. I don't understand why it never got the recognition it deserves."
Society of the Snow
"An absolute essential watch of 2023. The frigid, brutal and horrific story of the infamous Miracle of Andes incident of 1972. Whereas for some it could be construed as a miracle, for the departed it was a grotesque tragedy. A nerve-shredding spectacle of the survival story which director J. A. Bayona, well-known for such facilities like- The Impossible, A Monster Calls and Penny Dreadful chose to turn into a persevering story surrounding a relentless pursuit of hope and optimism but…"
Mimi
"First right off the bat, I agree that this is an emotional roller coaster of a movie with some wonderful acting. But, since my brain is a little bit weak on that part, I will also address the logical and analytical sides of things. First of all, it wouldn't be controversial at all to suggest that the subject matter of the movie itself is quite charged and therefore controversial. Apart from the general stereotypes like- Rajasthanis are rubes, uncouth and…"