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Sunday, August 04, 2024

The Killer (2023) - Keeps you in grips but keeps you afar

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From the very first frame, there is a sense of sanitized firm hand reaching out of the screen & placing it on our chest. The titular cha...
Saturday, October 04, 2014

"Gone Girl" (2014) - Movie Review

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As much as this reviewer is a great fan of David Fincher, “Gone Girl” is a film for the Coen brothers. It would have felt so home with t...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

"Lucy" (2014) - Movie Review

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For a movie that claims on its central character’s increasing ability to access her brain function by the minute, the screenplay of “Luc...
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Saturday, July 26, 2014

"The Spectacular Now" (2013) - Movie Review

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The refreshing breeze of “The Spectacular Now” is that there is a high school where the kids are regular every day kids and does not bod...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

"Edge of Tomorrow" (2014) - Movie Review

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“Edge of Tomorrow” might be the most solid summer entertainer that has arrived in a long time in the past few years. When it is said “so...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

"Take Shelter" (2011) - Movie Review

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There is a conscious selection of wiping off the background score in certain scenes by director Jeff Nichols in “Take Shelter”. The scen...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

"The Lego Movie" (2014) - Movie Review

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How many times the formula of “The Lego Movie” has been made, remade and re-remade? An idea as Christopher Nolan in “Inception” said is ...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

"Her" (2013) - Movie Review

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“Her” begins as a revolutionary new concept and it steers itself towards the eventual loss and pain. It does that with not alone pleasan...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

"Nebraska" (2013) - Movie Review

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I remember the description of a black and white photograph by my brother. It spurred after he saw portrait picture taken by either his f...

"Inside Llewyn Davis" (2013) - Movie Review

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What drives the Coen brothers to make a feature like “Inside Llewyn Davis” or any of their venture? They are uncompromising in their pro...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

"The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013) - Movie Review

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The hedonism of “The Wolf of Wall Street” becomes overwhelming within ten minutes of the film. For me it did not feel like a cautionary ...

"American Hustle" (2013) - Movie Review

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The opening scene of “American Hustle” goes for the jugular to stun the viewers to say something blunt despite the stupidity of the char...
Wednesday, November 06, 2013

"The Counselor" (2013) - Movie Review

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Cormac McCarthy’s first original film screenplay and directed by Ridley Scott is a broken poetry and that is not a compliment. This is n...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

"Captain Phillips" (2013) - Movie Review

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Paul Greengrass can shorten the span of a long, progressive and nasty violent situation into short span of time without compromising the...
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Sunday, October 13, 2013

"Gravity" (2013) - Movie Review

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Watching “Gravity” reminded “Moon” which as this film deals with a human in space all alone but more than that, it struck similar tone w...
Sunday, September 08, 2013

"Timecrimes" (Language - Spanish) (2007) - Movie Review

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“Timecrimes” is the kind of film that gives hopes to young filmmakers and moviegoers like me that complex science fiction is not at the ...
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