piyush

piyush

Favorite films

  • Snatch
  • The Graduate
  • Trainspotting
  • Uncut Gems

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  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

  • Batman: Under the Red Hood

    ★★★★½

  • Heat

    ★★★★

  • Ad Astra

    ★★★★

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  • A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown

    ★★★★

    So before watching the movie, I had read the reviews and most of them briefly complained that the film was unnecessary and could have been substituted with a documentary. While I understand and somewhat advocate the due criticism of Hollywood music biopics, this one is definitely not like the others. Sure you could have made a documentary but not a lot of people watch those, do they?
    This is an important film, and works just graciously to showcase the nature…

  • Ad Astra

    Ad Astra

    ★★★★

    This is one of those movies that's not very revealing of its true purpose but once you finish watching it, you can feel it tingling in your nerves as if it's trying to tell you something way beyond just science fiction. Maybe it's not that deep, maybe it's just pretentious and it's for sure flawed in many ways, but there's something very risky and almost ethereal in the way this film unfolds its nature as it goes on, that I just can't seem to hate on. Definitely a future classic.

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  • Enemy

    Enemy

    ★★★½

    what just happened?

  • The Doors

    The Doors

    ★★½

    The Doors deserved better.

    Okay, I'll get it out of the way that Oliver Stone's direction is immaculate and Kilmer kills it as Jim Morrison. No one can play this character better Van fucking Kilmer. But is it really Morrison that he is playing? Or is it even really the Doors?
    Okay, we know that Jim was erratic and an alcoholic. But that wasn't all about Jim. He was one of the most charismatic frontmen that the rock genre had…

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