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  • Hey Ram
  • Iruvar
  • Padayappa
  • Anniyan

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  • Ponman

    ★★★★★

  • Breakdown

    ★★★★

  • The Accountant

    ★★★½

  • Escape from Alcatraz

    ★★★½

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  • Ponman

    Ponman

    ★★★★★

    Why would a hard working man need dowry?

    As the story unfolds as a common man's struggle to get back his cheated gold it also intricately underlines everything that is wrong with the overdependency of marraiges on dowry and gold which is still a harsh reality in most parts of the country, while Basil's PP Ajesh is undoubtedly the film's strength as he perfectly embodies the form factor that amplifies the drama of this story in a 'David vs Goliath'…

  • Breakdown

    Breakdown

    ★★★★

    One of the most precise on point thriller I have watched with thrills being so periodically consistent out of a simple premise, Vidamuyarchi failed in that very aspect when it tried to be a character driven film pretty interesting how a scene by scene remake could also be done with a complete genre shift, there is no drama in Breakdown while the heart of Magizh Thirumeni's film is it's dramatic cores.

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  • Koose Munisamy Veerappan

    Koose Munisamy Veerappan

    Nakkeran Gopal literally pulls off a "for my boy Veerapan" in this documentary which kind of exists as a Roshomon effect counterpart to the previous Netflix documentary.

    The politics potrayed in Jigardhanda Double X hits deep after watching this gut wrenching documentary. 'The hunt for ?' episode on the police torture camps shook all my senses I just hope no one lives in a similar situation of state sponsored injustice now or ever in the future, I want to believe…

  • Leo

    Leo

    ★★★★

    Wrong Hype for a Right Film !!

    I saw History of Violence, I have read the graphic novel and I am familiar with Lokesh's sensibilities and that's the reason I was never hyped about this film but I knew he won't try to go with the trend of mass entertainer despite me being so confident that I knew everything about this film even before watching it, it did manager to surprise me at parts and keep me at the edge…

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