The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford is probably one of the most competently made things I have ever seen. Every single thing about it is immaculate. It is so sad that […]
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Catch Me If You Can Review: The Quintessential Spielberg Movie!
I can’t help think how messy and meandering Catch Me If You Can would have been if Steven Spielberg didn’t direct it. Seriously, this is some genius storytelling in my book. Catch Me If You […]
Gangs of Wasseypur Review: A Sweeping Epic in Every Sense of the Word
A middle class guy named Zeishan Qadri on a random day in the early 2010s knocked on Anurag Kashyap’s studio door with a script which had nothing but former’s childhood in Dhanbad and Wasseypur locked […]
The King of Comedy Review: A Hauntingly Relevant Commentary on Idol Worship that is Eternally Giving
I’m just a human being, with all of the foibles and all of the traps the show, the pressure, the groupies, the autograph hounds the crew, the incompetence, those behind the scenes you think are […]
After Hours Review: A Bold Artistic Statement from one of the Most Daring Voices of Cinema
80s was not so great for Martin Scorsese. Filming of The King of Comedy turned into a marathon, and when it finally got released, it tanked badly on the box office. Couple that with the […]
After Yang Review: A Science Fiction Dealing with Grief in All of its Complexities
After Yang is a sci-fi about a family forced to confront the ideas of grief, love and the meaning of life after their AI malfunctions one day, much like Kogonada’s previous film Columbus, this film […]
The Irishman Review: A Soul Crushing Tribute to Mob filmmaking by the Pioneer of it!
Martin Scorsese draws a visual callback to his most popular crime film GoodFellas in the very first scene of The Irishman, with a long tracking shot, however instead of a lively racous celebration that […]
GoodFellas Review: Martin Scorsese’s Most Influential Work To Date!
GoodFellas is a special film for me for a multitude of reasons, had I not watched it few years back I probably would have never taken films as seriously as I do today. It exposed […]
Sorcerer Review: Pure Lunacy of Filmmaking!
Sorcerer is definitely one of those “They don’t make films like this anymore” sort of classics. William Friedkin wanted it to be his magnum opus and I think he well succeeded. I can see the […]
Raging Bull Review: Thelma Shoonmaker’s Magnum Opus
Sequence during and after which Jake confronts Joey about Copa incident is an all time great, the post argument camera pan, Jake assuredly climbing stairs for bout vs paranoid delusions and frustration via Vickie: witness […]