Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Lootera 2013

  ★★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  The story by O’Henry is a tender and meaningful glimpse at life and hope. The way Vikramaditya Motwane has layered that simplicity within the backdrop of zamindars and thieves in a changing Indian landscape of 1950s (this guy knows how to put us in a time and a place very well, subtlety is where he shines) is nothing less than exceptional. 

  This might be one of those rare (if not the only) occasions where I can say that Sonakshi Sinha…

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  Better Man 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  I didn’t really know what to expect around this film, I had no idea who Robbie Williams was before this film but now I am very much inclined to know more about him and his music. I really enjoyed the hell out this film and I never knew that making the central character a goddamn monkey would blend in so well.

Popular reviews

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Oct 2023 2

  Killers of the Flower Moon is a deeply moving and harrowing account of the brutal killings of the Osage people in the early 1920s.
  

  Can you find the wolves in this picture?

  This film feels like a passion project of Martin Scorsese in the sense that it mattered to him a lot on a personal level and he wanted to bring it out to the world in a way that justified the story and drew a cultural impact and I…

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  Oldboy 2003

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Sep 2023 5

  Brutal, bleak and twisted.
  I liked the film much more on a re-watch, where I could sense the nuances and the motivations much better.