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  Uncut Gems 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Ishan 14 Dec 2019 2

  "That's history right there."

  DAMN FUCKIN RIGHT IT IS

  If Good Time was the inescapable poverty-ridden downward spiral then Uncut Gems is the self-inflicted mortal coil. One that entraps family until they not only have the common sense to disregard blood-ties and leave the burden aside to the sole cause, but also increase it to avoid any association.

  A bumblingly revelatory Adam Sandler grounds Howard Ratner’s scathingly comic full-throttle lust of addiction. Convincingly portraying an inability to secure the substantial…

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  Blade Runner 1982

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Ishan 28 Sep 2017 8

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  “Quite an experience to live in fear isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.”

  With Denis Villeneuve’s sequel Blade Runner: 2049 coming up, it never felt more an appropriate time to revisit the special gem that is the Final Cut version of the 1982 classic Blade Runner. A landmark of the science-fiction genre and the film that gave birth to cyberpunk, Blade Runner’s influence is colossal and its ideas feel more relevant now than ever. I was…

Recent reviews

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  Annette 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Ishan 21 Aug 2021 2

  considering that this is written by one of my favorite bands of all time, it’s fair to say this was pretty tailor-made for me, but even then it’s so magical to see how Sparks’ infectious spirit translates into celluloid; clearly brought together by a director who channels it so well formally and adds flourishes of his own too

  Annette is a tragicomedy of a fever dream that’s so blatantly on the nose with its satire yet holds itself together bizarrely well;…

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  Grease XXX: A Parody 2013

  ★★★★★ Watched by Ishan 19 Aug 2021 1

  “No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”

  - Ingmar Bergman

Popular reviews

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  The Master 2012

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Ishan 08 Nov 2017 16

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher...but above all I am a man. A hopelessly inquisitive man just like you."

  It’s been a while since I’ve been tempted to write a long spoiler review for a film I truly love with all my heart. Well, after rewatching The Master, I’m happy to say that feeling is back and a long spoiler review has been written.

  War harms the very best of us. It strips us…

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  Paths of Glory 1957

  ★★★★★ Watched by Ishan 19 May 2017 6

  [This review isn't great, but I like to think of it as a time capsule of my feelings back then]

  "Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion."

  As soon as this film ended and as soon as I wiped away the tears, I sat there astonished. There are not many films that are able to do that but Paths of Glory absolutely did.…