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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Hire better writers, Marvel. Multiverse of Zero Madness
When you have abundance of resources and still end up writing a story that can fit a single piece of paper, you've stopped caring about the universe and are getting tired of it. The movie was tolerable because of its remarkable actors. It felt like another episode of What If, just stretched to fit 2 hours of runtime. All the action sequences were rushed. You can give it a miss and wait for the digital release if you haven't seen.
Dear Marvel, stop chasing quick bucks and stop taking your audience for granted.
Sardar Ka Grandson (2021)
Arjun Kapoor needs a new career
Netflix is torture when it comes to Indian content, but this is a new low. Aditi Rao and Nina Gupta were wonderful as usual and if Arjun Kapoor thinks he can piggyback on these fine actors to further his own career, he is wrong.
Resident Alien (2021)
Why is this so enjoyable?
A breath of fresh air. No woke nonsense, just plain plot with great acting. No a dull moment anywhere. An alien trying to fit in among humans and understand human psyche to mirror them is brilliant. Ingenious dark comedy.
Paranormal (2020)
Don't understand the insane ratings
This is a good 6. Different, captures the 1960s good enough, fresh storyline but boring at times. Towards the middle you'll beg it to end quickly.
The New Mutants (2020)
Good for 6 year olds and below
Excruciatingly painful to watch. Somehow I managed to complete it.
Lovecraft Country (2020)
Great pilot; high production value; Insanely ambitious BUT...
The series divided into independent subplots (intertwined), which have a few threads in common.
What's great:
1. Jurnee Smollett's character
2. Nuanced take on "racial segregation" with a flavour of horror
What's bad:
1. The script (except for the pilot). The high production value tries to compensate for an uninteresting story-line but fails.
2. Fast-paced, compromising character development
3. Minimal essence of Lovecraft's horror
4. Distracting CGI in places
5. Not engaging enough
6. Too preachy sometimes
JL50 (2020)
Full marks for effort
Despite a very basic script, this is a breath of fresh air - something new. Besides the sci-fi angle, alluring performances by Abhay Deol and Pankaj Kapur, makes this enjoyable. Sony Liv has been churning out good unconventional stories nowadays.
Shakuntala Devi (2020)
This is not a biopic
Bollywood doesn't know how to make a biopic; or maybe they don't care as long as they're making money. Direction: The plotline is incoherent, seems like it is taken straight from Wikipedia. The movie just shows events happening without reasons, no story following up to the events. We rarely understand the mathematical genius that is Shakuntala Devi, because there's very little story to it. Much of it is just unnecessary melodrama centring around a mother-daughter relationship.
This movie is an insult to one of the greatest India has ever produced. ACTING: Vidya Balan is at her worst, partly because of a lack of plot and tries hard to compensate for it. She's over enthusiastic invariably, grins all the time - something very different from the actual Shakuntala Devi. She's not jovial, she's creepy.
Also, why does a biopic need so many songs? What a waste of effort and purpose.
P.S. They added components of feminism to garner postive reviews.
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Best in the series
Unlike the revered first part, this movie is not just a David & Goliath story. A movie about a player coming out of retirement, at the age of 50, could have gone wrong in many ways given the track record of the latter movies in the franchise, but instead this has better action, direction and gives a sense of closure to fans of Rocky movies.
The movie is not inconsistent, which was the issue with the previous Rocky movies. The plot is intriguing right from the beginning. It is slightly better than Creed I. Creed showed the unintentional funny side of Balboa, but Rocky Balboa has more gravitas to it and is the most inspirational of all.
Lootera (2013)
The last leaf
This movie is for a niche audience, hence the bad ratings. Everything in this movie, from the pace to the background music is more than appreciable. Set in the 50s it really tries to capture the era. Coupled with mature acting and realistic screenplay the movie takes you through a beautiful journey involving intense emotions and sublime cinematography with fine attention to detail. The acting is not over the top and there is no unnecessary melodrama. Amit Trivedi's composition is a cherry on top and blends nicely into the narration and completes the picture. My only complaint is choppy editing in parts of the movie.
P.S. Ranbir Singh's character in the movie aspires to build a masterpiece of art someday but it's actually Vikramaditya Motwane who paints it through this movie.
Anbe Sivam (2003)
Can you smile when in despair ?
I would go ahead and say that Anbe Sivam is a movie that compels you to contemplate more about life and how fair it is. The movie would leave a deep impact on you as you reach the end credits. You would understand that life is unfair and there are people who have actual problems as compared to you. Madhavan and Kamal Hasan do justice to their respective characters with effortless acting.
Having said that, if you are seeing this classic in 2018 it won't impress you so much with respect to the pace, cinematography etc. The main essence of the movie is the conversations between the two protagonists, although sometimes they are stretched out too much. Few emotional scenes were overblown to an extent.