Sequel to Knives Out. It must be very difficult to make a good detective movie today, since there has already been so many such movies and the entire point of a detective movie is in the suspense. If the audience gets even so much as a clue of how the mystery is resolved the entire movie gets spoile . . . Read more

Made by the same director who directed the Vengeance trilogy and the Handmaiden. The actress, Tang Wei, is phenomenal. Throughout the movie you cannot make up your mind as to whether she is the victim or a femme fatale or if those two are even meaningfully distinguishable. The ease and authenticity . . . Read more

Going in, I was quite skeptical of this movie. I had seen the trailer and it looked pretentious. There were a hundred different big named actors in a hundred-min-long movie. It seemed too fake to be good. It did not help that the theater I was in was bad with a small, awkwardly placed screen, seats . . . Read more

Let’s start with the obvious. Brad Pitt has managed to give the performance of a lifetime in Ad Astra. There are many scenes in the movie when he just emotes, there is nothing else going on in the entire frame, just him in focus with melancholic colors of space and science providing the stage. . . . Read more

There is something special about Spiderman. Though not the most powerful superhero, he is unmistakably charming, with a good sense of humor, which was probably why his movies were the ones to launch the modern superhero genre. And because he is not so grim and serious, somehow the same characteristi . . . Read more

This movie is Rashomon meets Oldboy meets a Tinto Brass. There is something disturbing about Korean thriller films. It’s perhaps exaggerated by my lack of knowledge of the Korean culture, it feels very alien, disconnected, happenning in a shadow world, fragmented, a snowstorm in a crystal ball . . . Read more

What? Is? This? [Movie?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDlzWH1wgJA) Imagine watching the climax of a Charlie Chaplin or a Three Stooges movie as a kid; people are running helter-skelter all over the place, things get so chaotic that you have no idea as to what is going on, your eyes are constantly . . . Read more

I always wonder what exactly is the world that Wes Anderson sees, does he really see things the way he portrays them in his movies? What a great gift to have, I’m so envious! Like all other Wes Anderson movies, Isle of Dogs makes no pretense of being serious or dark in any way. At the very sta . . . Read more

I haven’t seen Paddington, and frankly the only reason I decided to watch Paddington 2 is because of it’s insanely high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. The ratings are not exaggerated. This is a beautifully made movie, everything about this movie is good. I’ll only say this, watching t . . . Read more

Guillermo del Toro’s best work is undoubtedly Pan’s Labyrinth, a bittersweet dreamlike tale of a young girl who finds herself in the unknown forests of Spain. This new movie of his, Shape of Water, in some ways tries to recreate the same feel. The premise is completely different but the . . . Read more

*“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”* - 1984 Icarus is a shocking film about an American filmmaker getting accidentally intertwined with head of the Russian anti-doping lab, Rodchenkov, during the unfolding of the Russia . . . Read more

Goo watch Jumanji. I’ve now become a fan of Kevin Hart after watching this movie. There is no sarcasm, no deadpan humor, nothing vulgar, nothing GTA-Hangover style, nobody ever makes fun of anybody else, all the humor is benignly self-deprecating. It’s a heartwarming, wholesome, adventur . . . Read more