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Recent reviews

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  The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  I always admire Iranian Cinema for showing the problems plaguing their country and people in the purest, most cinematic way possible. And this film is no different. It starts off as a political drama but at the half-way mark it turns into a heartstopping thriller with nail-biting tension in the final act. This is how a slow-burn film should be. Commendable effort from the cast and crew to pull off a film like this. After reading their efforts to film…

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  K. D. 2019

  ★★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025 1

  Has both humor and heart with terrific casting and performances. Excellent score but I wish the dramatic moments were allowed to linger without the music emphasizing the moments.

  Since KD's release, maybe 2-3 Tamil films have had the same level of writing AND filmmaking finesse. This is not a criticism of Tamil films but it's more about how good KD is.

Popular reviews

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  Amaran 2024

  ★★ Watched 30 Oct 2024 6

  A dull biopic that treats its protagonist as a larger-than-life hero (in the army portions, we see Mukund being a good leader and colleague. He goes out of his way to help people and doesn't go against his boss's orders. Even when he gets shot, he goes to Kerala to protect a soldier from Kashmir. How can a real person be portrayed only in good light without any shades of grey?) instead of a real, flawed, vulnerable character. The writing is…

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  Dragon 2025

  ★½ Watched 20 Feb 2025 16

  Wastes a terrific premise with great scope for drama because of the surface-level writing, which contains soulless scenes and characters. A couple of crowd-pleasing moments and songs are the only positives. 157 mins runtime felt like one week. An arrear-level effort.

  Some notes (contains spoilers):

  - The opening scene starts off with Raghavan plotting revenge, just because a girl said she likes another guy who's a "ketta payyan". A film like "Premalu" treats a similar rejection in the opening scene…