Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A good story marred by too much reliance on style. Saoirse Ronan is great, but the fractured narrative robs her of momentum.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Move over, Slumdog Millionaire. This is the real thing.
Ramin Bahrani's sprawling tale of a poor young Indian man who rises to become an entrepreneur is an epic saga of inequality, poverty, and corruption. Adapted from the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Aravind Adiga, it is not your typical feel-good story about plucky self-realization. A first-person narrator, Balram (the extraordinary Adarsh Gourav), tells us his story from rags to riches. The movie begins in the middle when Balram’s eventful life…
Underwritten, and overrated, a pointless and boring navel gazing exercise about triviality.
I hate this movie. Long, wooden, and pretentious in the most boring possible way. Probably the most passive aggressive movie ever made.