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Predator: Killer of Killers
"An undisputed contender for the best action movie released in 2025 gears up for the top spot. Go Shield, Sword and Bullet!!"
The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)
"Wagner Moura's quietly impactful role in the Oscars nominated movie."
The Plague
"2025's commentary on toxic masculinity, how it walks under the skin during teenage and then runs in adulthood."
Train Dreams
"Joel Edgerton is the forest who sees and feels it all in this profoundly heartfelt and sincere period drama adaptation of Denis Johnson's undervalued novella. Clint Bentley's mesmerizing ode to the lost world and how one man finds bodhisatva in all its chaos by living varieties of different versions of lives in just one has a tranquilizing and meditative mindfulness effect even for an industry that has been quite blasting blaring reverberant. Adolpho Veloso's captivating photography creates magic with Bryce…"
Hamnet
"Jessie Buckley wears one bright red dress and a hundred emotions in this somber tragedy behind the staged tragedy family drama about love, loss, grief and art. I could hear the wind again in a movie which felt like a long time coming. What starts as a love story between the daughter of the forest witch and a supposed mediocre Latin tutor soon turns into sacrifices from both sides for family, purpose and agency. Distressing enough as it was which…"
The Plague
"The memetic neurosis that grabs ahold of little kids because of the effective "Recruit them young" potency. Contrary to the popular belief this contagion doesn't start in crowded public spaces, rather, mostly from home it follows. In the latest segment of "Children play the darnedest games, don't they?", Charlie Polinger presents his madcap surefire recipe for the making of a potential school shooter that is as heady as it is weighty with the help of jarring sound design. He uses…"
The Secret Agent
"The many faces of Moura in the throes of a black mark with a stench in Brazilian history. In the aftermath of a successful Operation Condor, a civilian with no connection to the underground revolution tries to pick up the pieces of his decimated life. The Secret Agent's sauce lies in its ambiguity around well-defined and categorized genres. It refuses to choose whether it is a spy thriller or a legal drama surrounding justice. Rather it takes a very personal…"
The Wrecking Crew
"Didn't expect the crossover between Drax and Aquaman or Lobo (or whatever, I have since lost count) would be such a slop. Petulant compulsive showboating follows along every other Netflix movie starring The Rock to feed the giant algorithm monster. It's like one of those terrible 80s Bollywood films preferably with Mithun at the steering wheel, where the death of a father or the mother's dramatic distress calls bring two estranged brothers who don't get along to work in tandem…"
The Perfect Neighbor
""I find that the shooting was completely unnecessary", Judge Robert Hodges. I liked Detective Pinder and that white lady across the street yelling at the Karen. With jarring body cam footages, dispatch call audios and stationary interrogation room CCTVs, Geeta Gandbhir shows the racially motivated personal angle along with the political angle through policy enablers in the Ajike Owens homicide case. What's comforting was how both white and black families came together in solidarity as one community in the backdrop of all that open bigotry but what's also as alarming is that how one single person can sow that much discord and chaos."
It Ends
"Figuring out the inner workings of a Short Stay In Hell becomes a rigorously exhausting and endless task and Hollywood tries to grasp the concept of Bodhisattva in this one. Trippy science fiction horror floors its gas pedal through Sartre's Nausea along with Being and Nothingness to Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra just within 90 minutes in what I am willing to claim might be one of the most overlooked underappreciated movies of 2025. Granted,…"
Predator: Badlands
"A Matt Reeves's Apes duology makeover of the predator franchise. Trachtenberg keeps on cooking one banger after another and continues the lore of the Predator beyond humanity while keeping the humanized traits, such as- pride, honor, grit, brotherhood, empathy and humor intact. After Killer of Killers, one would think that Dan here might be out of fresh ideas and concepts, but he flips the John McTiernan script that started 38 years ago and creates a riveting imaginative world full of…"
Death of a Doctor
"Heavy is the head that wears the rationalist crown. Late Bengali filmmaker Tapan Sinha whose name is often considered to be situated in the same pantheon alongside Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Miran Sen and venerated for keeping parallel cinema alive brought Ek Doctor Ki Maut at the exact same time when Aamir's Dil, Sunny's Ghayal and Anil's Kishen Kanhaiya were pulling waves of crowd into theatres and printing money. Sinha had always been known for carefully dovetailing extreme forms…"
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. Amanda Seyfried breathes fire in this TikTok-promoted famous Freida McFadden mystery thriller novel adaptation which is a little too familiar in mechanics and contrived with its plot. Which begs the much needed question- Do Hollywood studios now find themselves at ease with just adapting every Colleen Hoover style authors' works and how many of…"
Predator: Killer of Killers
"An undisputed contender for the best action movie released in 2025 gears up for the top spot. Go Shield, Sword and Bullet!! The Apex species at the top of the food chain continues its favorite pastime; trophy hunting in search of the worthiest opponents, the formidable kinds. Ever since Trachtenberg revitalized this franchise once considered being on its deathbed by focusing on the basics and experimenting on new themes with the inception of Prey, he seems even more energized with…"
Dhurandhar
""By the most mechanical and dirty hand... I will have such revenges on you both.... What they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth.""
Dhurandhar
""By the most mechanical and dirty hand... I will have such revenges on you both.... What they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth."Aditya Dhar delivers the most galvanized kinetic action spy thriller in Bollywood's history since Neeraj Pandey's Baby by following the blueprint of Puri Jagganadh's Pokiri but for an expansive consequential espionage setting that is both savagely gnarly and adroitly measured with no intention to mollify or being conciliatory. No…"
Wonder Man
""Acting isn't a job. It's a calling. It's the most consequential thing a person can do with their life."- Trevor Slattery. Wonder Man tells a passionately grounded allegorical tale, giving a whirl at a new style of art house project within the gigantic superhero branch until it quietly and ever so slowly metamorphoses into the monster it intends to slain by becoming a prologue to set off a sequel. A scatterbrained bumbling and brilliant Ben Kingsley anchored the new MCU…"
