Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Extra half star because it’s just really fun and rarely do you see a film made for adults like this nowadays

  This is as old-school dialogue-driven spy thriller as it gets— as in it’s as fun but it’s also as twisty in its story to the point where it does go a bit whoosh (especially in its second half). Despite that though, never really bored me for a second and always felt like Soderbergh had his hand on the wheel.

  Oddly works great as a double feature with The Killer.

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  War on Everyone 2016

  ★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  100% convinced this was more fun to write and shoot. Just wish it was as fun to watch beyond the staple McDonagh humor.

Popular reviews

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  Friday Night Plan 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Sep 2023

  I’m convinced Excel is the only Indian studio that’s making films that have an actual target audience— whether it’s this or Hello Charlie (hey I didn’t say it had to be good)

  Friday Night Plan takes what Y-Films tried years ago with high school films like Mere Dad Ki Maruti and pulls it off a lot stronger with a lot of innocence and heart.

  Sure the dialogue feels a bit clunky sometimes and the script falters sometimes but the strong music and cinematography carries it all the way home.

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

  ★★½ Watched 06 Jul 2023 8

  I am literally so disappointed with this. If Fallout was the Skyfall of the MI series, then this is Spectre… but make it a B grade film.

  There’s a total of two set pieces that I love and honestly, the first 30 mins were going great… I just don’t know what the heck happened after that. It tries too hard to either be serious or to make it nostalgic for the first Mission: Impossible lovers but it doesn’t even try to acknowledge the progress…