Overall it left me a bit cold (mostly because of how radically the narrative shifts its interest away from Laila in the second half) but what Hafiz Hafiz does with film form and Imtiaz's own obsessions is so stunning that I might love this movie on the strength of that alone.
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Jab Harry Met Sejal 2017
Still many things here that are probably unforgivable but I don’t care—it makes me forgive them. I just…love this movie. I cried so much? Special shoutout to SRK’s three unbuttoned buttons.
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RRR 2022
Feel free to judge me for going to see this in theatres twice in three days but after 2+ terrible years of barely going to the movies the way this film embraces the full scope of cinema as theatrical medium was something I couldn't stay away from. I wondered what I would think of this film the second time, whether the pure adrenaline of my initial viewing was a one-time thing, but I only appreciated its visual/aural/narrative construction more with…
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Vivacious Lady 1938
I literally cannot handle how cute and sexy Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers are together. CANNOT HANDLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
