Avinash P.

Avinash P.

|Ardent Scribbler| Fervent Bibliophile| Critic of the Self| Partly Phlegmatic, Partly Mercurial| Absolute Egalitarian| NOWHERE MAN|

Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • Alien
  • Christine
  • The Shining

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  • Stray Dog

    ★★★★

  • High and Low

    ★★★★½

  • The Way Back

    ★★★★

  • 5 Centimeters per Second

    ★★★★★

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  • The Way Back

    The Way Back

    ★★★★

    Ben Affleck as Ben Affleck. The Way Back plays partly rambunctious and noisy, partly subtle and soft while finely balancing at the seams. A driven and telling sports drama with a powerful upshot.

  • 5 Centimeters per Second

    5 Centimeters per Second

    ★★★★★

    Ingeniously creeps into your soul, shakes it up a bit, wishes it well, and kind of restores your faith in wishful thinking.

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  • The Social Network

    The Social Network

    ★★★★

    The dichotomous Zuck! (Will let you know why this title, soon.)

    Simply put, The Social Network is not a movie. For me, it's a dynamite of sheer exuberance pompously ready to explode. It's packed with a melange of great, varied and challenging aspects a movie should be bragging about at this date. The story, meticulously borrowed from the novel The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich (I declare it a fine read), zig zags its way throughout the 2 hour non-linear…

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Fantastic Mr. Fox

    ★★★★

    I guess Mr. Anderson has that perennial impetus to subvert normal, bland, and cliched direction while painting the frames with vivid and flamboyant tapestry of emotions, gesticulations, and what not. A cunning and a deft adaptation of Roald Dahl’s timeless novel. One of my favourite movies from one of my favourite filmmakers, what can I say.