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Schindler's List
"Umpteenth time, so much that lost count. There is nothing more to review about this magnum opus. I stand by my statement every time I rewatch this it feels like Ralph Fiennes becomes more menacing and barbaric and it cements my understanding of the statement- Amon Goeth is and will be among the most evil characters ever to be portrayed on screen. On the topic of Schindler himself, Spielberg let him go with an easy one without much of the…"
Big Fish
"Second watch after maybe ten or eleven years. A Tim Burton movie, very few talk about. A very rare topic of father-son dysfunctional dynamics. Ewan McGregor gives a charming and magical performance. A story about the art of storytelling, embellishments and how much artistic liberties the author takes to make the plot interesting. His usual collaborator Helena Bonham Carter plays her usual wacky self. How much of the stories told by our ancestors is true and how much of it…"
Irresistible
"Not as bad as I thought it would be. Second ever directorial venture of Jon Stewart. This movie is a satire and a political commentary on the sorry state of divisive politics played by both sides of the partisan groups, liberals and conservatives and how a town teaches the ultimate lesson to PAC and the lobbyists and the Congress and all the suits in Washing DC. Too much optimistic and preachy and impractical but fun thanks to the comedy genius…"
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
"The funniest movie I watched in 2023 was from 2010. When released, the movie didn't get half the praise which it has been garnering lately. A cult classic horror comedy which is actually a parody of the trope camping in a cabin in the hinterland gone bad. It makes fun of giants in the slasher genre, such as- Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead, Cabin In The Woods, Wrong Turn and many others rather successfully and in a spectacular manner. This…"
Mysterious Skin
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The Kid Detective
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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
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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."