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Kill Boksoon (2023)
KILLING TIME WITH KILLERS ‘Kill Boksoon’ builds promise right from the opening scene where two famous assassins face off near a railway track for a stylish yet anti-climatic (dark humour?) fight unto death. It then develops into a full-blown action melodrama that, well, somehow works.…
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Bheed (2023)
TO BHEED OR NOT TO BHEED As a person of so-called Dalit origins, I can’t help view movies that deal with the issue of caste and caste empowerment without a vicarious sense of representation. “Bheed” too was one such story. It depicts the omnipresent shroud…
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Thankam (2023)
ALL THAT GLITTERS “Thankam” is a good movie — a mix of a thriller a police procedural — that stops short of being excellent. It grips you enough to keep you guessing what might happen next throughout, until the somewhat tame albeit surprising end to…
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The Whale (2022)
A WHALE OF A MOVIE ‘The Whale’ is a movie that leaves you heartbroken but satisfied. You root for the protagonist so much that you wish the story had ended differently, because you desperately want him to find redemption, and the happiness that he seeks,…
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Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
ABLE ELBA For fans of the original BBC series, “Luther: The Fallen Sun” picks up where it left us, in a movie sequel. It has all the key elements of the series absolutely intact, on a slightly larger scale. Idris Elba once again plays the…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022)
YEOHVERYTHING YEOHRYWHERE ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (EEAAO) is a difficult movie to classify. It blends genres in an unusual way. It is an intense family drama, a love story, a comedy, a science-fiction movie, an action movie and epic adventure with the now done-to-death…
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Christopher (2023)
CHRISTOPHER, WITH LITTLE TO OFFER What can you say about a movie that is an endless parade of predictable clichés right from the word go? Watching it till the end was like watching a train derail on a bridge — you know what to expect,…
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Iratta (2023)
TWIN TREAT ‘Iratta’ is that Sunday afternoon kind of movie that keeps you riveted from start to finish, through every twist and turn, while you burn brain cells trying to second-guess what is to come next. The movie starts at a police station where a…
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Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (2022)
MORE NIGHTMARE THAN DREAM Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a strange movie. Reminiscent of the style of films like Elippathayam (1982), it is deliberately slow to the point of ennui. There are cinematic devices strewn around in the narrative ostensibly to evoke a “how clever” from…
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) & The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
The post compares two contrasting movies: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ a grand WWI epic, and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ an intimate tale of lost friendship in a small Irish village. Despite their differences, both films center on a man’s heartbreaking transformation due to…
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No Man’s Land (2021)
WARNING: CONTAINS PARTIAL SPOILERS നായികാ പ്രാധാന്യമുള്ള കഥയാണ്. അല്പം ബോൾഡാണ്. അടി പൊളി, പറയൂ. നായിക സിംഗിളാണ്. ഒരു ഹിൽ സ്റ്റേഷൻ റിസോർട്ടിലെ സ്റ്റാഫ് ആണ്. അവിടെ വരുന്ന സിംഗിൾ ആണുങ്ങളുടെ കൂടെ കിടക്കുന്നതാണ് മെയിൻ ജോലി. ഭക്ഷണം പാചകം ചെയ്യും, നന്നായിട്ട് മദ്യപിക്കും. കൊക്കെയിൻ സ്നോർട്ട് ചെയ്യും. ഇത്രയും പോരാഞ്ഞിട്ട് കഞ്ചാവും വലിക്കും. OMG, റ്റൂ മച്ച്. വേറെ കഥാപാത്രങ്ങൾ?…
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Navarasa (2021)
I finally got around to watching (trying to watch, to be more accurate in hindsight) the much-touted “Navarasa”. An anthology of short films that depict the ‘9 emotions’, it brings together some of the biggest names in the Tamil film industry. Watching it was a…
