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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★★

  • Santosh

    ★★★★½

  • I Want to Talk

    ★★★★½

  • Predestination

    ★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★★

    Where do i start! 

    This movie is nothing like Bong Joon Ho’s earlier works, or so it seems. He just made a 120 mn dollar scifi after his Oscar win in 2020, and the movie talks more about earth and humans instead of science. It’s made by design to throw you off the course and invest in mad fun from time to time. So you only think after you leave the theatre. The best stories are the ones which make…

  • Santosh

    Santosh

    ★★★★½

    Santosh is a rare gem and deserves all the laurels it’s been getting in the prestigious festivals. The film deals with critical issues in the Indian society from caste to untouchablity. The dialogues are measured, the silences are evocative. Sahana Goswami commands the screen without saying much. It’s been a delight to see her acting prowess over the years, from the realistic wife of a rockstar in Rock On to a seductive Bong in A Suitable Boy. She plays the…

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  • Girls Will Be Girls

    Girls Will Be Girls

    ★★★★★

    The characters seemed very personal, an age of innocence that makes you nostalgic. The film is not buoyed down by the period treatment and the long static shots. It lends into a visceral storytelling that you rarely see in today’s Indian cinema. The characters are played so beautifully, that you start feeling for them effortlessly. Kani Kusruti gives another stellar performance after All We Imagine As Light. Hats off to Richa and Ali for backing this heartfelt film that can…

  • Boyhood

    Boyhood

    ★★★★★

    A masterpiece, the characters age seamlessly through the film’s timelines, with the fluidity characteristic of Linklater’s movies. I am in love with every character in the film, and just like life, i want them all, flawed and indispensable as they are. And at the end of 10 years of carefully orchestrated film production, our ‘boy’ asks the rhetorical question, what’s the meaning of life, Hawke just admits, we are all just winging it. The rarest quality of the film is,…

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