Exceptional! Such an exhilarating big screen experience! Patriotic historical epics about anti-colonial revolt may seem like familiar material at first, but Rajamouli’s treatment is so creative and memorable. The first half is one iconic sequence after another. Both leads get extended, magnificently choreographed intros. Their meeting scene is breathtaking, a remarkable stunt executed in painterly images. Even before the high of that big moment cools down, we get the most energetic, joyful, and tense dance scene in recent memory with…
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Radhe Shyam 2022
Two and a half hours of gorgeousness! The story may not make sense for some, but it doesn’t have to. The locations, the colors, the opulence take you to another world! It is a lovely fairytale, a perfectly calibrated mix of melodrama, romance, humor, heroics and music.
They don’t make pure star vehicles like this anymore. Prabhas is magnificent throughout - the skateboard chase, the train sequence, and the ship extravaganza are all very impressive. I was clapping and smiling…
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Papicha 2019
An extremely manipulative and didactic film that capitalizes on the western gaze. There are thousands of western people who blindly trust and appreciate films like this. When the film says the right and easy things, many flaws and logical mistakes are quickly forgotten. I know western viewers are very comfortable to just observe how terrible Algeria is and reaffirm how superior their own lives are by watching a dumbed down third world tale like this, but I’d like to list…
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October 2018
One of the most complex, layered, and affecting character studies I have seen in cinema. The central relationship is so strange and beautifully realized that I felt an unfamiliar sense of sadness and fascination get hold of me as the film went along. Is this a love story? There is certainly genuine affection and caring, but can love emerge under the circumstances seen in this film?
Or is it a story about obsession? That is too negative a word for…