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  Novocaine 2025

  ★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Brilliant acting from Jack Quaid, but the movie and plot as a whole fell far short, especially when there was so much scope for it to be something truly remarkable. Really wanted to love it.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Imagine winning an Academy Award for Direction and Best Picture, and what’s the next big thing in your life? You start receiving calls from the biggest production houses in the world, asking you to make a film under their banner and offering you a blank cheque. This is exactly the kind of batshit crazy, comic, stupid, weird, politically charged satire that holds nothing back and is also full of heart. If you had that blank cheque, this is the kind…

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  Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire 2023

  ★★ Watched 21 Dec 2023

  I don’t know exactly what went wrong, but everything feels completely out of place. It’s as if Prashanth Neel was held at gunpoint to make a film that’s like KGF. The direction, motivation, and need behind the elevation and drama, which felt deeply rooted and justified by the immaculate marriage of reasoning and need in KGF Chapters 1 and 2, seem completely baseless, forced, and artificial here. Salaar was one of my most anticipated movies of the year, and it’s a complete letdown. I feel bad for Prabhas man. He deserves better films.

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 30 Oct 2022

  Aftersun is the perfect portrayal of how we articulate a particular phase of our life and then resonate or come in terms with it, when actually gone through. The father - daughter relationship here is the most grounded, yet magnificently beautiful and possibly the most painful I've ever seen on screen. I don’t know, but Charlotte Wells delves deep into grief, while cunningly suggesting us that it's gonna be about love, and love alone.

  I'm still trying to piece together…

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