Udbhav Agarwal

Udbhav Agarwal Patron

JD/PhD student based out of Washington DC & Allahabad. Writer, A for Prayagraj (Aleph Book Company, 2021).

Favorite films

  • The Disciple
  • All We Imagine as Light
  • Super Deluxe
  • Joyland

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★½

  • Lady Bird

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★

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  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    ★★

    Do the lord’s work, and be the first to start laughing at this in your theater…

  • Monkey Man

    Monkey Man

    ★★

    This one was a tough nut to crack. Was I not liking this because of a misplaced sense of propriety over these cultural symbols? Could the movie be a great action pastiche, and I the fool? 

    After sleeping over it, I have thoroughly come down against Monkey Man. I am all for diaspora filmmakers having fun piecing together their version of “homeland.” What Patel does here is something else though - his infusion of Indian objects, symbols and myths uproots…

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  • Babygirl

    Babygirl

    ★★★★

    Babygirl should check out Sniffies

  • Heretic

    Heretic

    ★★½

    Dumb movie that thinks its smart < Smart movie that thinks its dumb.

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★

    Oh this is dumb as hell

  • Strange Darling

    Strange Darling

    ★★½

    Edit this bitch down.