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  Identity 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Feb 2025

  The Mission Impossible of Malayalam industry. Technically very sound. Solid script, which was an investigative thriller in the first half with majority of the twists delivered during this time, which changes into an action thriller in the second half, with more focus on "catching the culprit" part. Massive entertainer for sure!

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  Decision to Leave 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  The most Un-Park Chan wook movie by far and also probably the most gently treated romantic tale of his filmography. It visibly bears a Hitchcockian style that apart from its color palette, echoes mostly through the crux of the plot, that's reminiscent of Vertigo and Rear Window in particular. While I say it's very different from the usual Wook pattern of stylised and raw violence, intimacy, and thrill, somehow it also manages to retain the signature of Mr Park, through…

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  Joker 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 28 Sep 2024 4

  Chose to get mindfucked early in the morning today...by the end of the 2 hr runtime, I am left utterly shocked, speechless and terrified. As a viewer of this very dark, psychologically disturbing tale of depression, apathy and violence, I can only imagine what Phoenix must have gone through during this. I bow down to him, he just outplayed himself. Together with the haunting soundtrack, colorfully menacing cinematography and masterful direction, JOKER(2019) is a psychologically heavy movie that will creep and build on you for some time even after watching it. Haunting, it is. It's the REAL horror.

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  Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

  ★★½ Watched 06 Oct 2024

  Style over Substance.

  Although the Style was worth the watch in the big screen, with impeccable cinematography (Take a bow, Lawrence Sher) and a few nicely choreographed musical scenes, the Substance falls flat in the latter half especially. I really did like the concept of a musical-courtroom drama but the execution is where it lagged behind.