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Recent reviews

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  Adolescence 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  Fooking magnificent!

  Involves 13 year old boys, so yeah this was gonna trigger me anyways. And aside from a few moments in the second episode, the oner gimmick is perfectly in service to the drama. And that says a lot about how great the writing is!

  
  I wonder what the director is doing next?
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  Enola Holmes 3! What the....

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  Rekhachithram 2025

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Aggressively mediocre mostly, the present-day antagonists are terribly written while every single attempt at "mass" falls flat.

  But the emotional core works. Director Jofin has an inventive premise, captivating protagonists and a poignant metatextual layer at hand (and I REALLY appreciate how Rekha's story is structured. Bit of a stretch, but it did remind me of Gaspar Noe's Irreversible). But he's too timid of a filmmaker to venture beyond the broad strokes.

Popular reviews

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  Bottoms 2023

  ★ Watched 23 Sep 2023

  Y'all just trippin!

  Awful, like, GODAWFUL writing. This getting great reviews maybe the biggest scam America has ever pulled.

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  North 24 Kaatham 2013

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2024

  Rewatch Takeaways:

  1. Finally realised how clever the placing of Kochi, one of the most polluted places in Kerala, as the clean freak protagonist's home town was.
  2. The final 30 minute stretch is an all-timer.
  3. The endgame of their journey was evident right from the start for all the three characters. The ignorance was the coping mechanism, which shatters once Nedumudi Venu literally breaks down in the auto journey back home.
  4. That auto guy from the railway station was Khalid Rahman, right? Noticed he was the film's AD as well.
  5. Oru solo trip adikkenda samayam adhikramichirikkunnu.