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  Memories of Murder 2003

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Feb 2025

  Without a moment of doubt this is the best investigative thriller my eyes have ever witnessed. Of the countless who dunnits featuring a contrasting detective duo I have watched seldom did a film ever manage to captivate me with the most basic of elements of an investigation. Bong Joon-ho managed to do it to perfection and beyond. The character arc of detective Park doo-man to the brooding mystery surrounding detective Seo tae-yoon, the dynamic between the two characters that kept…

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  Kishkindha Kaandam 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  A psychological thriller strumming human and deeply emotional strings so effortlessly is not an easy feat to pull but Kishkinda Kandam does the job seamlessly. Human relationships stand atop the mountain of all things deemed to be complex in this world. Not everything maybe what it seems to be and not every emotion could be expressed regardless of how dire the need may be. This film so beautifully displays the human implications of emotions that are sometimes best left unsaid…

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  Gladiator II 2024

  ★★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  The 86 year old Ridley Scott amazes with Gladiator II’s amazing set pieces and overall thematics. Paul Mescal makes a strong case for his range, Denzel was as good as ever and Pedro Pascal’s sheer presence was captivating. The fight sequences were well made with some questionable cgi here and there while the dialogues were just as good as expected if not more. 

  The first indoor fight sequence is one more thing that I believe deserves a special mention…my god…

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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★ Watched 10 Jan 2025

  In all it’s bleakness, Aftersun does manage to get a pondering moment out of me but I have to say that I was not able to connect with the film as much as I had hoped to…at least while watching the film. To me, reading about it later on and reflecting on it did so much more in terms of creating an emotional connection as compared to the actual visual experience of the film itself. Sure some of the technical…

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