Anis Adnani

Anis Adnani

Favorite films

Don’t forget to select your favorite films!

Recent activity

All
  • Sick of Myself

    ★★★½

  • Incendies

    ★★★★½

  • In the Heat of the Night

    ★★★½

  • Still the Water

    ★★

Recent reviews

More
  • Sick of Myself

    Sick of Myself

    ★★★½

    A pathetic master manipulator, I can smell the tales on you now…

  • Incendies

    Incendies

    ★★★★½

    Chilling plot, brilliantly paced, beautiful shots. What more can you ask for?

Popular reviews

More
  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    Judas and the Black Messiah

    ★★★½

    Commendable for its portrayal of the FBI and Chicago PDs determination to stamp out any resistance to economic and racial hierarchies. Suffers from unimaginative cinematography and the sidelining of Hampton’s greatest achievement—the feat that resulted in a phone book thick FBI file before he could legally drink alcohol— building a rainbow coalition that was united under a redistributive agenda. Thus, the film is unable to effectively explain the FBI’s hatred of Hampton. 

    Kaluuya’s performance is his greatest to date. Stanfield…

  • Still the Water

    Still the Water

    ★★

    Beautiful cinematography, otherwise a film hamstrung by poor pacing and writing. The landscape scenes of Amami-Oshima are a welcome respite between the plodding, mechanical dialogue.

Following

19