Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Eagerly waiting for the sequel "Convlex"
The most John le Carre-pilled film that's not actually based on a le Carre novel, and yet better than most official adaptations. It helps to have several members of the same creative team behind the 2011 "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" remake though. Director Tomas Alfredson is an EP this time, while Peter Straughan is the screenwriter (RIP Bridget) adapting this Robert Harris novel.
Fiennes is fantastic but we knew that already, as is the…
This sci-fi counterfactual dark comedy social satire (mouthful of a genre, I know) instantly surges to Dibakar's very best, from the snappy deeply layered screenplay to the busy in your face camerawork. But where Dibakar has shown the most evolution as a director here is the ability to get the best out of his cast to the point that they largely disappear into their roles.
Shashank is at risk of being typecast but plays off perfectly opposite Zoya Hussain and…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Can we have more documentary filmmakers get narrative feature opportunities, please? And vice versa, because this was phenomenal in every regard.
From the seamless transitions between a found-footage style to just one pretty shot after another to the incredibly realistic central performances, this is as anti-'Oscar bait' as it gets.
Where other filmmakers would've faltered by way of endlessly preachy dialogue or overwrought sadgirl ballads, Kapadia simply refuses to speed things up and just lets her characters live, almost as…