Joshua Varghese

Joshua Varghese

Favorite films

  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
  • Moonlight
  • Django Unchained
  • 12 Angry Men

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  • Mickey 17

    ★½

  • Rain Man

    ★★★

  • Don't Move

    ★★½

  • Alien

    ★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★½

    Kept waiting for it to get to the good part and then it just ended. I think it was supposed to be a comedy but none of the jokes really landed for me. Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collete’s characters were almost funny but even their whole parody thing felt played out. Pretty disappointing, would not recommend.

  • Rain Man

    Rain Man

    ★★★

    Tom Cruise’s acting is the weakest point in my opinion. Though the premise is kind of insane I imagine it was perceived as more heartwarming due to the amount of awareness the public had on autism in general at this time. And while it did bring autism awareness I wonder how many stereotypes it cemented. As a film I think its easy to look at this and say that Charlie clearly only started caring for Raymond once he became useful…

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  • The Creator

    The Creator

    ★★½

    Very pretty film with amazing colors and landscapes but that’s about it. Dialogue and acting fell flat, characters uninteresting at best with confused motives at worst. AI being AI also has no real impact on the plot. If you replaced them with any other group that was “different” the story could be the exact same. Also weird Christian allusions with Joshua being the middle of a war, Alpha Omega, heaven, etc. But for what? Alpha Omega doesn’t sacrifice herself for…

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★½

    As visually impressive as the first but with more plot and action. Absolutely needs to be watched in IMAX as I fear you would simply lose the scale of many of the scenes without it. I am most impressed however with the film’s ability to take such an alien setting and make it something digestible and engaging, so much so that I didn’t even realize the movie was almost 3 hours long. One issue I had though is that this…

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