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Mercy
"Wasn't that domestic? AI and Humanity reconcile their differences admitting both their error rates and just move on. Like Michael Bay on Molly, this is one of those streaming platform curated movies that just wants to end fast on a note of post-adrenaline rush euphoria alas it doesn't, I think add anything originally refreshing to the totalitarian surveillance AI genre but I also don't think it necessarily deserves to be warranted so many single stars. Surely, Mercy is half-baked and…"
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
"Movie The Babadook without The Babadook or the loss and by loss, I mean the conventional form of loss, the loss of identity, agency, will, purpose, community, support, reassurance are still all here. Somehow, strangely enough If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, a pressure cooker of a movie reminds me that perhaps that Jason Reitman movie Tully starring Charlize Theron was not completely over and this one is supposed be an extension of that. It's just the next stage.…"
Free Fire
"I forgot how fun this movie was and even on a rewatch 10 years after it doesn't feel rusty. The amount of lunacy and capriciousness in this movie is bat crap crazy. A tinder box filled with real tools and some of the tools are real twerps. Sam Riley was unbelievably impressive in this with a brilliant makeover. Armie Hammer before his fall, true to his salt plays a world class dick, Cillian and Brie play themselves and Sharlto Copley,…"
Diés Iraé
"My most anticipated Indian movie by one of the finest Malayalam directors currently working in the industry became a humdrum of cliches because Sadasivan plays it safe this time and as per the textbook manuals of the horror genre unlike his previous projects that were audacious, experimental and attuned to Indian culture, mythology, legends and lores. One entitled brat's bachelor pad turns into the seventh circle of hell as he tries to keep control of his surroundings. Wires from inside…"
Marty Supreme
"One of the finest sports movies to go down in cinema history. It's fast, chaotic, thrumming with a powerful score by Daniel Lopatin and sprints on knife edge. And that's coming from a guy who doesn't much go for the sports biopic period drama type genre. The story of daedalus and icarus gets resurrected here in an A24 movie, where else!!!The most apt way I could describe this movie is as follows... Imagine a scrawny white boy in his…"
Kalamkaval
"Mammootty stays true to his elements, the plot on the other hand not so much. In a game of cat and mouse, the Malayalam star known for his genius craft uses the border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu as his hunting ground, stalking, luring, catching his prey ever so smoothly in board light slithering through villages and cities using his charm and smile highlighting his coldness even more. Some unbelievable filmy forensic knowledge can also be found at his disposal.…"
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
"Howzat? Not really impressive nor even close to its prequel. Ralph Fiennes channeled his Voldemort committing to a performance within performance and a devil Jack O'Connell watches close by in this all-flair spectacle with very little new fresh substance to it despite being the finest most fascinating character created by the entire franchise in the form of Doctor Ian Kelson. Two different strands of subspecies from the same animal family diverge in this follow-up to Danny Boyle's last year comeback…"
The Outfit
"Door opens, bell jingles. Those are the repeated subtitles in this smart crime thriller that takes its sweet time to mount the pressure. The Outfit is Kingsman if Kingsman was grounded in any semblance of reality, well, relatively speaking. Even on a second watch, this underappreciated caper directed by Academy winner Graham Moore is still an amazing watch. The art and craft of precise storytelling through the eyes of a fastidious dapper looking Englishman. The outfit has so much beneath…"
It Was Just an Accident
"This Iranian movie becomes a metaphor for and simultaneously against that saying- "Wait until you see what ordinary people with no violent streak can do to their fellow neighbors when opportunity arises in the form of orders." Panahi doesn't explicitly show the dark spots of past and lets us viewers imagine the atrocities by moving back and forth between dialogues but he very quietly and movingly shows how ordinary people even after being tortured, victimized and debased bring out their…"
The Assessment
"Alicia Vikander annoys the hell out in this post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie which is lesser on the sci-fi side and more towards the drama and emotional side of things. Another feather to go on her weirdo hat. What could perhaps be considered as the most glaringly unrecognized movie of 2024, at first glance over the majority portions of The Assessment, it makes it out to be a case for how special and lucky it must be to become parents in a…"
The Endless
"At least the good news is it was not a cult. A trippy low budget cosmic science fiction that plays mind games with its subjects as it intends to keep its audience perplexed. Justin Benson's The Endless is an underappreciated cosmic horror that uses major aspects of the sci-fi tropes. Is it alien? Is it an experiment? Is it a death cult? Is it something incomprehensible by design? While being self-aware about UFOs and Heaven's Gate, it attempts at deprogramming…"
Lurker
"Even a carpet may once in a while get the impression that it owns some square footage of the house, the next thing it knows the owner tosses it out on their way to the store. Alex Russell's Lurker fires back in the most sadist manner and asks- What if that carpet becomes the very monster that embellishes and brings out the best features of the house! 🙂 Now, I feel what it must be like one of those fans…"
30 Days of Night
""There is no escape. No hope. Only hunger and pain" in this massively underrated blood soaked splatterpunk vampire horror movie that doesn't hold back with one of my favorite locked chamber designs and a frigid setting perfect for a watch during the winters. It doesnt try to dig up a origin or establish a flashback, it relies only on the laws of the lore and the design schematics of the prescribed setting. Josh Hartnett is anywhere and everywhere in this…"
Dear Child
"This mystery crime thriller puts the audience in darkness by not being obvious about what genre it would fall into but by the time it ends it becomes obvious that it's just another rendition of the same equation with different variables in the said genre. The show started really fast-paced and intense with turning pages through unravelling the crime and the characters' situations bound to it. But, then it gets real tedious and repetitive and by the time the resolution…"
Keeper
"Tatiana Maslany exudes both fear and terror in this horror thriller that plays like a story out of an Adam Neville novel. With psychedelic drowsy visuals and sudden bursts of loud intense sound design, this movie uses the done-to-death trope of couples retreat and cabin in the woods with desaturated colors and dim lighting fine but fails at scaling beyond the usual measures relating to backstories and the fundamentals of resolution attached to the purpose behind the whole thing. The…"
Eternity
"Eternity is one long episode of How I Met Your Mother coupled with Black Mirror's Hang The DJ. Miles Teller crosses one more bar across his range spectrum with this love triangle movie. Although, Elizabeth Olsen carries much of the task in Eternity, it's nothing new for people who are already familiar with her works. Kudos to Hollywood for still taking risks with a worn-out concept but still bears enough new materials to breathe new life into it by reinventing…"
Predator: Badlands
"Dan Trachtenberg has been having a field day with these predator projects. Doesn't he? The absolute best and my new favorite Predator movie since the original 1987 one starring Schwarzenegger and Cal Weathers. It's been a long time coming."
The Housemaid
"The Stepford Wives meets Big Little Lies and A Simple Favor in this erotic psychological thriller that loses its mystery comprising sociopathic gaslighting through conventional plotting."