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  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Jun 2023

  𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 - 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫-𝐌𝐚𝐧: 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫-𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞
  𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 - 𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐦 𝐃𝐨𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐬, 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐊. 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐊𝐞𝐦𝐩 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬
  𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - 𝟏𝟒𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬

  Sometimes the hype is misleading. Especially if you consider the proliferation of social media and how much an exaggeration of the qualities of a movie is confused with the dopamine high experienced as a perspective of subjective approval.

  Sometimes though, the hype is legitimately pointing towards the truth.

  What we have here is a hybrid form of filmmaking. Filmmaking where…

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  Joyland 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Apr 2023 3

  There is always something revealing about the innermost psyche of a director in his debut feature, a form of perspective so unvarnished that the impact of that perspective only hits harder. The emotions depicted aren't new, but the approach to depicting them manages to imbibe a new meaning for the viewer.

  It is not enough that Joyland is the love story between Haider, the youngest son of a patriarch in a middle-class Pakistani family, who falls in love with a…

Recent reviews

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  Pickup on South Street 1953

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Jun 2023

  𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 - 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐮𝐩 𝐎𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭
  𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 - 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫
  𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - 𝟖𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬
  𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥

  What is striking about "Pickup On South Street" is the world-building and Fuller's insistence on developing a lived-in network of criminals with their own codes. But within those networks of thieves, prostitutes, and pimps, Fuller searches for humanity and finds it, managing to extract it from the deep burrows of machismo and quick-witted, razor-sharp dialogues so trademark of American noir. In…

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  Intimidation 1960

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Jun 2023

  𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 - 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
  𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 - 𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚
  𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - 𝟔𝟓 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬
  𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥

  It's always fascinating to explore movies which barely cross the hour mark, but more often than not manage to tell a complete story. One of the primary reasons is the tightly plotted screenplay, which surprisingly packs in a variety of themes and sub-genres - class warfare, infidelity, moral dilemma as well as a heist included within it for added measure. What is immediately striking…

Popular reviews

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  Love, Death & Robots: Jibaro 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 May 2022

  The story of a deaf knight and a siren of myth attracted to each other. She because he is unaffected by her scream, he because she is a mythological creature adorned with treasure. What occurs in Alberto Mielgo's 18 minute short with an almost manic camera work moving in and out of focus, is the deconstruction of myths and reconstructing it through a far violent and haunting lens. The snatching of the treasure is eerily reminiscent of the snatching of…

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  Kuttey 2023

  ★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2023 2

  Observations -
  1. If i had a nickel for every time a Netflix Bollywood or a soon to be released Netflix Bollywood movie uses the story of the frog and the scorpion as its central theme, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but I am still surprised it is more than one.

  2. Try as I might I still don't understand how the first fable narrated by Konkona Sen Sharma's character even remotely wraps itself around the…