Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Accountant 2016

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  I think this movie definitely exists in a space of its own. It's unique, it has a little more emotional weight than your run-of-mill one-man-army action flicks.

  Perhaps it falters in its depiction of autism. Or in its attempt to connect every second character to the protagonist's backstory. But it tries to do something different. And that counts.

  Also, loved the Midwest fall colour pallette maintained throughout the film. Placed within some carefully and neatly shot frames. Yet another unusual choice for this genre and tone.

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  Miami Vice 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  I fucking love Michael Mann's action style man. I love how he captures the seedy and speedy night. How he shoots his choppers and planes and cars and speedboats.

  Miami Vice is a neat thriller. It is no Heat or Collateral. But it retains the grit and style of both those classics.

  I only wish the female leads -- built to be strong characters -- hadn't been reduced to the classic love-interest-damsel-in-distress trope. Used by the antagonists as bait to…

Popular reviews

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  Tumbbad 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Sep 2024 2

  1. Folk horror done beautifully. I was very impressed by how immersive the cinematography and production design was, so much so that I expected it to continue raining off-screen after I stepped out of the theatre into the outersphere.

  2. Chef's kiss for the intricately detailed sets and locations. Not a good movie for Pune tourism in the early 1900s though.

  3. The first chapter of this film -- with the cursed grandma as the antagonist -- was genuinely way…

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  The Vast of Night 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jul 2024

  Started this movie in 2020. Completed it last night.

  I'd have loved for it to have been plainly about people in a small, desolate town experiencing something extraterrestrial on a sleepy night and then returning to their usual lives after. Our protagonists investigate sightings of an unidentified flying object, witness something vague and supernatural themselves, get a good 'radio story' out of it, find success in their future endeavours, and the question of belief is left entirely to the viewers.…