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Recent reviews

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  Abnormal: Buas 2024

  ½ Watched 12 Jun 2024

  A great lore wasted on a stupid movie with horrible direction throughout.

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  Syif Malam 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Dec 2023

  The movie's nothing to write home about, but this should be the standard or at least the default template for local horror comedies; it has to be scary OR funny, not lesser in either of those halves, in which this movie did well in both.

  Why can't we have that? 😩

Popular reviews

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  Law of Tehran 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2021

  I never thought Iran could handle a police procedural story! And they've done so with so much finesse and intensity, too!

  None of that CSI shit. It instead went with the Breaking Bad-style character study method, but with loads more emotional and psychological rollercoaster in the mix.

  We have a no-nonsense cop who's had it with the rampant crimes in Iran, his colleague who's wrongfully accused for a blunder he didn't commit and a Heisenberg-style disillusioned drug dealer who thinks…

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  Three Widows Against The World 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 28 May 2022

  As a guy who rarely follow or see Eid PSAs made by TNB, an entire feature film made by one of those directors (or is it always the same guy? I have no idea) such as this one doesn't have any right to be this good!

  Despite being primarily a comedy which offered plenty of laughs and absurdity, it's also a tear-jerker when it needs to be, thanks to the excellent acting and chemistry by its three lead actresses. I…