Editor's Reviews
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The Running Man
"Edgar Wright arrives at the action thriller scene with what turns out to be 2025's most pleasingly entertaining movie but with a hokey and sketchy denouement. The most fun I have had watching a movie in 2025 since Deep Cover."
Anniversary
"A timely relevant political dystopian thriller gets too derivative of The Handmaid's Tale with choppy storytelling but impactful performances. This is every middle child's nightmare fantasy wrapped in political packaging. A time-jump heavy political thriller that plays like an episode of Black Mirror styled dystopia which is all too real but also too on the nose. While attempting to bridge between Alan Moore and PKD, Jan Komasa's Anniversary makes pointed political rhetoric stemming from a fractured ego as a form…"
Wake Up Dead Man
"A Haunting in Chimney Rock. The most politico-religiously heavy messaging in a whodunit in a recent time. It's an appeal to both liberals and conservatives by Rian Johnson through a sophisticated suave Daniel Craig which is definitely a few steps up from Glass Onion."
EKO
"The power of Malayalam cinema stands unwavering and awe-inducing. A movie that is steadfast in the face of the recent trend of thoughtless rubbish. Watch it!! Watch it now. With a meagre 5 crore budget without any heavyweight starpower whatsoever, this is a testament to the fact that one doesn't necessarily need 400 crore, affluent CGI companies, green screens, nor special effects, any sort of flare, nostalgia farming or even choreography or playlist for that matter. So, what remains then? Substance."
One Battle After Another
"A love letter by the 70s' counterculture progressives to the millennials, Gen- Z and Alpha in praise for not giving up and continuing the fight. The most unashamed political film of PTA doesn't intend to pull any punches about lost warriors, underground movements, misguided blueprint for rebellion in contrast with community-based righteous duty locking horns with alt-right weirdos, neo-nazis, integrationists and border czars. A wet dream for the street activists who have just had enough of what's been going on lately."
The Rip
"Intense action thriller with enough testosterone-filled trust issues as well as gruff geniality in the form of brotherhood to blow the streaming platforms to kingdom come. It's been specifically curated for the audience who have aversion towards slow-burn thrillers, who rather take pleasure in high-pressured action movies where tension rises gradually until it all erupts. Like Matt Damon recently confessed- Netflix wants to make movies that could make the viewers not doze off or space out and instead subscribers could also take a peek at their phone screens; basically make us stay awake. Well, we lot got our perfect movie."
SANTOSH
"पूलिस आपकी मित्र हे, न कि विरोधी। थाना आपका है। हमारी नियुक्ति आपकी सुरक्षा के लीये हुई है। (The Police Are your friend, not your opponent. The Police Station belongs to you. We are appointed for your safety.) - A board hanging on a wall of the police station in Santosh reads."
Pluribus
"Finally a show since The Leftovers and Netflix's Dark that made me think and feel at the same time. 99% of Pluribus, nothing gigantic happens because it's as philosophical as Plato, Descartes, Hobbes, Hegel, Turner, Donaldson, Harari, Durkheim, Marx, Huxley, Wells, Heinlein, Clarke and even King. It's arduously slow-burn. Think Villeneuve's Arrival and dial it down even further. But, equally philosophically enriching. Nothing big happens, because Gilligan who brought us Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul channelled his inner creator of The X-Files and A.M.P.E.D isn't trying for giant spectacles rather he wants to strike up conversations and surely, he got his conversations. I don't see the effects of Pluribus wearing down anytime soon not at least till the next season releases."
Santosh
"पूलिस आपकी मित्र हे, न कि विरोधी। थाना आपका है। हमारी नियुक्ति आपकी सुरक्षा के लीये हुई है। (The Police Are your friend, not your opponent. The Police Station belongs to you. We are appointed for your safety.) - A board hanging on a wall of the police station in Santosh reads. A multitudinous portrayal of an outmoded hierarchy, its domineering power and how it leads to corruption, misogyny, tribal thinking and brutality through the instrument of twisted weaponization of…"
The Rip
"This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth."
Relay
"A consistently paced corporate espionage thriller in its first act that could have redefined the contours of counter-surveillance while being minimalist instead got stretched extremely thin to a point of familiar space in the final act. Nevertheless, Relay is indicative of how far long Hollywood has come since the silent era's Traffic in Souls (1913) to North By Northwest to The Conversation all the way to The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Insider, Bourne Series, Runaway Jury, Michael Clayton, Syriana…"
Black Bag
"An airtight espionage thriller so tactically ingenious that it almost made me recollect Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the crown jewel in the spy game genre. Ever since Soderbergh distanced himself from big budget studio projects, the outcome has been positively inventive, to say the least.Fassbender has never been this dapper and charismatic in his entire career including The Killer. He has reached the status of a cult leader I very much am willing to join blindly. Blanchett, on the…"
All Her Fault
"An investigative thriller that was sailing smoothly until the last two episodes where it found itself losing steam and right in the middle of doldrums. An amazing Sarah Snook and what turned out to be Michael Peña's most serious contemplative role steered this taut mystery on an emotionally tear jerking rollercoaster of a path and then, it started ticking the usual boxes. At its core, the central theme of the first six episodes seemed to be centred around weaponized incompetency…"
Bugonia
"This should have instead been called Weapons. As bonkers, bleak and bizzare this movie is, it might be right up the alley of every conspiracy peddler who subscribes to the Silurian Hypothesis or the long defunct Heaven's Gate and the ilk of Joe Rogan University, both the graduates as well as professors, such as- Graham Hancock. Despite all that, the silver lining remains that even progressives might use this weird satire as a cautionary tale."
Bulbbul
"Anvita Dutt's Bulbbul gets hamstrung by failing to look beyond the trappings of romance-drama and look over deeper themes to employ feminine rage through the use of supernatural horror grimoire. Contrived production design, manufactured atmospheric spookiness and artificial lighting marred this grim, dark (both literally and thematically) witchy tale in which the only rays of sunshine were Tripti Dimri who remained underutilized due to a ham-fisted script and Amit Trivedi's hauntingly melancholic music. Bulbbul is 20 years too late, it…"
Eko
"The power of Malayalam cinema stands unwavering, focused and awe-inducing. A movie that is emblematic of as to why this industry stays steadfastly inventive and passionate against the current trend of thoughtless rubbish. Eko by Dinjith Ayyathan (of Kishkindha Kaandam's fame) demonstrates how much of an impactful storytelling could be done with what little material and a meager budget one may possess. First monkeys and now dogs. This movie is as much about loyalty as it is about how reflective…"
Marshland
"True Detective even before True Detective was a thing. The resolution was shoddy, the denouement was abrupt yet the cast were terrific and the gritty, desaturated, drab photography was hauntingly complementary."
Roofman
"The gentler and empathetic side of Cianfrance which he brings along with his trademark style of poignancy dripping from subtle quietness while letting Pretty Boy Mike work his signature charm. This one is for all the disaffected, disillusioned men who lead lives of quiet desperation with a yearning to turn back the clock and be accepted back into the family and community.P.S.- It just slightly misses the mark of becoming the next The Old Man & The Gun by David Lowery."