★★★★½ Watched 20 Apr, 2020 If I had to use one word to describe this movie, it’s ‘epic’. The character of Javier Bardem’s Anton Chigurh is enough to carry this movie but it goes from normal to masterpiece because of actors like Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones. It’s an extremely riveting and suspenseful movie. It isn’t as funny as the Coen Brother’s other … Continue reading No Country For Old Men (2007)
★★★★★ Watched 19 Apr, 2020 I have never watched anything like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in my life. It is only one of 3 movies in 91 years to win the Big 5 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Male), Best Actor (Female). I think it completely deserves all of those awards as it is one of the most memorable movies … Continue reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
★★★★ Watched 19 Apr, 2020 I’ve watched two six-hour documentaries in the last 5 days and I was blown away by both. Cheer has some of the most incredible documentary filmmaking I’ve ever seen. I never thought I would be so interested in competitive cheerleading but it made me care a lot about something I had no interest in or idea about. That’s when you know … Continue reading Cheer (2020)
★★½ Watched 18 Apr, 2020 The second film in my endeavour to watch all of Aaron Sorkin’s (my favourite screenwriter and widely considered to be the GOAT of Screenwriting) filmography. I started with A Few Good Men a couple of weeks ago and that is a significantly better film than Malice. The best way to describe this movie is ‘predictable’, and not because of a lack … Continue reading Malice (1993)
★★★★★ Watched 17 Apr, 2020 Let’s say you took the best parts of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Icarus and The Godfather and put them in one six-hour docu-series, that is what McMillion$ is. The way it tells its story is so exhilarating that you never feel like you’re watching something real. But it’s a documentary, EVERYTHING is real! The FBI are a main part of this doc and … Continue reading McMillion$ (2020)
★★★★½ This show is incredible! It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen from the Star Wars universe and yet is has this eerie similarity in many ways! It’s so unique in its storytelling format and just makes you enthralled with the entire world and the characters of the story. Pedro Pascal is the reason this show works. For a main character whose face you don’t see … Continue reading The Mandalorian (2019) Season 1 Review
★★★★★ Watched 14 Apr, 2020 Annie Hall beat Star Wars (the original one) to win Best Picture back in 1977. I can see why. It’s incredible. It’s hilarious. It’s one of the most incredible comedies I’ve seen and yet it’s also one of the most nuanced love stories I’ve seen. Woody Allen is hilarious and spectacular making these hilarious anecdotes and fourth wall breaks. Of course, … Continue reading Annie Hall (1977)
★★★★★ Watched 14 Apr, 2020 In 2012, Vertigo was voted by Sight & Sound as the greatest film ever made, dethroning Citizen Kane. I can see why. Vertigo is excellent on so many levels that I cannot begin to describe. Alfred Hitchcock is obviously considered one of the greatest if not the greatest filmmaker of all time for a reason, and it’s very apparent in this … Continue reading Vertigo (1958)
★★★★ Watched 13 Apr, 2020 Jacques Tati, is supposedly one of the greatest French filmmakers of all time. When I was choosing which of his films to watch, I accidentally chose his last one. But I don’t regret it at all. Trafic is a delightful movie. It is beautiful to look at from the first shot to the last shot. And though it takes a while … Continue reading Trafic (1971)
★★★ Rewatched 12 Apr, 2020 Before you attack me, I understand this film’s cultural significance and I’m not trying to defame its iconicity in any way. I am trying to review it purely as a film and nothing more. When put up under that lens, Shrek proves to be an entertaining, yet incomplete film. In 90 mins, it defies all Disney-esque tropes, gives you a bunch … Continue reading Shrek (2001) – A Blast From the Past : Chapter 4
★★★★½ Watched 12 Apr, 2020 The one word I would use to describe this movie is – Joy. I can’t believe it took me this long to watch a Studio Ghibli movie but I finally did and I am not disappointed at all. The animation is amazing; It’s some of the best I’ve ever seen. Paralleled only by the likes of Pixar but that’s not really … Continue reading Ponyo (2008)
★★★★½ The best sports feature film I’ve watched so far. This is so good on so many levels. The logistics of showing a football match in a movie is so complicated that director Tom Hooper (of Cats fame) decided not to show any in a movie completely revolving around football. It revolves around Brian Clough, the greatest British manager to ever live, but the way … Continue reading The Damned United (2009)
★★★★★ Watched 30 Mar, 2020 As a film critic, I try my best not to read too many reviews before I watch a movie because I don’t want it to influence my opinion. However, as this was a Pixar film, I couldn’t escape the reviews and what all the reviews said was that this was some generic animated movie and that it was mediocre. I’m glad … Continue reading Onward (2020)
★ Watched Mar 30, 2020 I had so much hope for this movie. This is the Suicide Squad spin-off that had so much promise. After Shazam! and Joker, DC were on a hot streak. This is also their first ‘A’ or ‘R’ rated film in this DCEU. But this film is an utter disappointment, it fails in everything it tries to do miserably. It’s not funny, it’s not … Continue reading Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)(2020)
★★★★½ Watched 26 Mar, 2020 Monsters, Inc. is incredible! The story is so beautifully captured in the limited 90 minutes that you can’t help but feel that this is an incredible film. Now, it isn’t ‘masterpiece’ levels, not in my opinion at least. It’s not as deep on an adult or mature level as some of the other entries by this company but it exceeds all … Continue reading Monsters, Inc. (2001) : Blast From the Past – Chapter 3
Reviewland by Arnav 