fishyrishy

fishyrishy

Favorite films

  • Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
  • Super Deluxe
  • Jigarthanda
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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  • Mersal

    ★★★

  • Dragon

    ★★★½

  • Billa

  • Meiyazhagan

    ★★★★½

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  • Mersal

    Mersal

    ★★★

    If this movie was just the Vetrimaaran portion this would a 5/5. With all three of the Atlee/Vijay movies, the flashback is the best part and everything else is kind of mid minus a few cool moments.

  • Dragon

    Dragon

    ★★★½

    Very entertaining movie that sold me on Pradeep Ranganathan more than Love Today. Really smart writing helps lift this movie beyond its premise and it really works bigger than the sum of its parts.

    There still is the weird misogynistic undertones that existed in Love Today (tho not nearly to the same degree) especially with how the ex character is handled in bits. Her telling him to hit her as much as he wants feels kinda icky even if the…

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  • Thangalaan

    Thangalaan

    ★★★★

    Finally some great tamil movies this year.

    I guess I’ll start with the negatives cause I don’t have too many.

    - Although I don’t think this falls into the Kollywood 2nd half curse, I will say that the first half was better. Not saying the second half is bad at all but it does get a bit more predictable

    - I wish the ending and resolution of all its threads was a bit more clever. Without spoiling anything, it felt…

  • Indian 2: Zero Tolerance

    Indian 2: Zero Tolerance

    ★½

    It’s sad to see Shankar not have any new tricks left.

    This was one of my most anticipated movies of the year because I was curious to see what Shankar would do differently with the style and formula he pioneered in an Indian movie landscape where the new blood that were influenced by him took his ideas and ran (directors like Atlee, Lokesh, Murgadoss, etc.), but the thing is he doesn’t do anything differently.

    It’s frustrating to see that Shankar…