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Thoughts on Project Hail Mary, a film that feels entertaining but not satisfying. Ironic how, for a film where the big villain eats sunlight, its biggest weakness turns out to be its lightness.
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A while ago, Indian-American comedian Hassan Minhaj put out a standup special called Homecoming King. It was a fairly well put together act that was framed as a series of “autobiographical” stories about finding oneself as an immigrant in America. I put in the quotes not because I didn’t think it was autobiographical but because…
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If the first film was the setup, the second is the payoff. Personally, I liked the setup better — it did more interesting things with its screen time.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal teams up with Jessie Buckley (with Christian Bale and others for support) to deliver a gloriously unhinged film.
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Thoughts on Dhurandhar, a riveting blood-soaked spy thriller with some top-notch world building.
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You like recipes? Here’s one: Mix well and serve in a tall glass. When asked to describe the flavor, nobody’s gonna be able to get past ‘flavourful’ because, well, it tastes like so many things so what do you narrow it down to? A “revolutionary” in hiding calls a secret hotline to get details of…
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To paraphrase a line from Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in reverse, Coolie gets plenty right, but not where it counts. Less action, more drama would’ve made this a lovely action-drama.
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I recently watched F1 on an Imax screen. The film isn’t trying to break new ground emotionally or dramatically (it’s as though, after revisiting top gun from an older man’s perspective, Kozinski wanted to do the same thing to Days of Thunder – incidentally both were by Tony Scott). But from a filmmaking standpoint, it’s…
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An entertaining morality tale that works off an uncommonly intelligent script. Capra and Hirani would be proud.
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You know how The Bride runs through (often literally) the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill Vol 1, and with all those geysers of blood spraying around, you thought, “They’re having almost too much fun making this”? Rifle Club is basically the same thing.
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