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Love Life (2023) Movie Review: Koji Fukada’s dive back into the uncertainties of life is fractured and moving in equal measure

Shikhar Verma — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 07:31:24 +0000

It’s tough to really get under the skin of the characters that Japanese filmmaker Fukada dishes out of his seemingly distant personality. Much like his previous efforts, particularly the 2016 drama Harmonium and the more recent A Girl Missing (2019), Love Life (2023) is a narrative that feels fractured and moving in equal measures. His…

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Jailer (2023) Movie Review: An Irresponsible Screenplay Suffering from Delusions of Grandeur

Ashwani Kumar Tiwari — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:26:16 +0000

Sometime in the second half of the film Jailer (2023), there comes a scene in which Tiger, played by Rajnikanth, sits before a film director and advises him to make wholesome commercial films that can be watched with family rather than the current garbage he (or the contemporary mainstream filmmakers) are churning. Alluding to the…

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Passages (2023) Movie Review – Franz Rogowski is a bisexual narcissist in Ira Sachs’ brutal and affecting look at modern relationships and their messy overlay

Shikhar Verma — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:50:37 +0000

American director Ira Sachs is clearly going way beyond his territory in his latest film, Passages. Not only does he stray to the French setting with ease, but he also tells a very French story about a narcissistic German director miserably oscillating between the two ends of a love triangle, making everyone else miserable in…

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Barbie (2023) Movie Review: A Thoughtful Blockbuster which Commands Respect

Rob Jones — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:10 +0000

This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being covered here wouldn’t exist. Barbie (2023) Movie Review: Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are credible filmmakers who know what they’re doing. It feels apt to start a review of Barbie…

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Movie Review: Tom Cruise’s Meta-Textual Outing Compounds The Vitality of Both the Star & the Franchise

Aryan Vyas — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 04:09:39 +0000

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Movie Review: The discourse surrounding movie theaters’ vitality and mainstream entertainment’s credibility has seemingly intensified lately. Last summer, Tom Cruise proved how the two are synonymous with each other; the critical and box office success of “Top Gun: Maverick” stood as a testament to how the two…

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Insidious: The Red Door (2023) Review: Not Nearly Insidious Enough To Deliver on the Franchise Hijinks

Aryan Vyas — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 03:32:41 +0000

We all know how every film is a product of its time. But that is especially true with the horror genre. After the creative plateauing and commercial fatigue of both analog and gore horror, the acclaim of A24’s “Hereditary” saw a string of films that wreak horror from the inherited trauma and mental illness that…

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