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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  “Mickey 17” is a messy, disjointed film plagued by weak plotting and shallow writing—but strangely enough, I was still captivated by it.

  Don’t get me wrong—this is nowhere near the level of Parasite or Bong Joon-ho’s other Korean works. If anything, it’s more comparable to his weaker English-language projects. The premise, while intriguing, barely evolves beyond the initial setup, and the characters—while zany and eccentric—are disappointingly paper-thin. They aren’t funny - just felt childishly zany. Interesting themes are swept away…

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  Boonie Bears: Future Reborn 2025

  ★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  I had to watch this for work—had no hopes for it judging by the start. It felt like a cheap 2000s animation movie lost in time: bad humour, product placement, and annoying voice acting. However, when they travelled into the future, the animation picks up and the writing strengthens. The movie suddenly realises—hold on, we can explore more mature themes without dumbing it down for the audience.

  Whilst nothing groundbreaking in terms of animation or story, it’s competently made and…

Popular reviews

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  Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Jul 2023

  Rocky Aur Rani is a delightful throwback to the Bollywood movies of the late 90s and 2000s, where the score dictates how you should feel, the wind blows from nowhere, the close ups are closer, the tears flow freely like a leaky faucet and subtlety is thrown out of the window in favour for melodrama. If you know what you’re getting into, Rocky Aur Rani is a ball of a time.

  The musical sequences are grand, well choreographed and awe…

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2023

  Oppenheimer is a gorgeously shot, wonderfully marketed in the misdirected presentation of an action drama, where it is a 3 hour long character study of Robert J Oppenheimer.

  The story blooms and revels like an onion, carefully peeling slowly, steady, while the occasional clumsy narrative sins (characters popping in and out into unidimensionality, the pacing of the first and second act jumps between too fast and too slow, the edit doesn’t give time for the audience to breathe before jumping…