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Pistol 2022
Danny Boyle, back from the brink of terminal dadness, taking another crack at the Frankenstein legend. It has a very funny Frankenstein in Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Malcolm McLaren, and it does its little monsters the honour of treating them as real characters rather than caricatures: it proves Toby Wallace's bullishly charming "Babyteeth" turn wasn't a one-off, plays admirably fair by Anson Boon's Lydon, and does something quietly heroic in passing with its Vivienne Westwood (Talulah Riley: good!) and Chrissie Hynde (Sydney…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Finally, a movie that understands that all the best movies have:
- atleast 5 extensively choreographed badass kung fu fight scenes
- Michelle Yeoh
- a really touching narrative about love and acceptance and optimism disguised as a mind-meltingly original multiverse fantasy
- moments that make you wanna call your mom or your dad or your granddad or your lover or your pet raccoon and tell them how much you love themThe fact that something like *this* is so…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
The Matrix meets Thanos meets Wong-Kar-wai meets Guy Maddin meets nods to so many other films and filmmakers, I can't even, while still having Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's authentic, eccentric, metaphysical signatures written all over it to provide you surreal, therapeutic ecstasy in a 2 hours and 20 minutes of joyride, especially if you're having a bad day, or a bad week, or a bad month, or a bad life in general.
Just be a rock and enjoy.
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Kaithi 2019
You remove all musical moments of Tamil commercial movie, you have my curiosity. You put the entire story in the span of one night, basically creating a chase movie. And your subplot is Kanagaraj's homage to John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13. You have my attention.
Gritty, compelling, electrifying at times, it also is bolstered by Karthi's presence. His brutish physicality is complemented by his emotional poignancy and that shows. This is also a very directorially remarkable movie. Even as…
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Jhund 2022
Jean Luc Godard once said "It doesn't matter where you take it from, what matters is where you take it to".
Ofcourse Jhund uses the standard template of underdog sports drama and uses familiar beats and tropes but the underdogs are authentic, they're in even worse state, some of them are not even identified, they exist but they're invisible to us and thus a mere representation becomes important, Manjule however does much more than that. He doesn't compromise on the… -
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
We can do whatever we want. Nothing matters.
The Daniels probably gave us the greatest superhero movie of all time, featuring probably the greatest superhero of all time, with the multiverse we all want to live in.
To live a better life.
To live a happier life, and to figure it out all by yourself by exploring every inch of it.
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The Northman 2022
ɴᴀᴍᴇ - ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴏʀᴛʜᴍᴀɴ
ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛᴏʀ - ʀᴏʙᴇʀᴛ ᴇɢɢᴇʀs
ʀᴜɴᴛɪᴍᴇ - 137 ᴍɪɴsThe true example of an auteur's work unencumbered by the largesse of the studio coffers, to the tune of 90 million dollars provided to an indiosyncratic voice like Robert Eggers, The Northman is an uncompromised vision of a Scandinavian folklore which has familiar beats for anyone associated with the stories that came after - more notably William Shakespeare's Hamlet. As it stands the story is relatively straightforward, the…
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Jhund 2022
Jhund is not actually a subversive film but it works like a revisionist one for the internalized storytelling aesthetics commercial Hindi cinema has been adopting for quite a while. The problem has been their majorly apolitical gaze, star centred screenplay, and an utter disregard for representation. The supposedly cinematic moments often break the organic flow just to occur in a frame(s) and please the audience. The cosmetic appeal becomes overwhelming and films come from a space of assumed understanding about…
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