Joker: Folie à Deux Review | A Character Study With Too Much Melancholy and Too Little Folie

The title of the second part of Todd Phillips’ Joker is Joker: Folie à Deux. Folie à Deux means a scenario where two people share the same mental illness. So, from the title itself, it is sort of evident that they are trying to pitch the second installment as a love story. While the first… Continue reading Joker: Folie à Deux Review | A Character Study With Too Much Melancholy and Too Little Folie

Transformers One Review | An Impressive Origin Story That Can Resurrect This Jaded Franchise

Transformers One, the latest animated action film that serves as a prequel to the 2007 Michael Bay movie, actually offers a breath of fresh air to this jaded franchise that mostly went after scale. Unlike the Michael Bay films, which always depend on the visual spectacle angle of filmmaking, the animated version approach from director… Continue reading Transformers One Review | An Impressive Origin Story That Can Resurrect This Jaded Franchise

It Ends with Us Review | A Middling Relationship Drama That Deals With Domestic Abuse

 It Ends with Us, based on the best selling book of the same name by Colleen Hoover, is a story that ultimately talks about domestic abuse and how women should make stronger decisions to make it stop. While the events that lead up to the climax have an approach that doesn’t necessarily demonize the abuser,… Continue reading It Ends with Us Review | A Middling Relationship Drama That Deals With Domestic Abuse

Trap Review | A Middling Psychological Thriller With a Solid Josh Hartnett

Trap, the new M Night Shyamalan film starring Josh Hartnett, has an enticing premise. When you watch the trailer of Trap, that feels like the perfect example of how to pitch your script to any producer. And when I saw the film’s trailer, I was disappointed because I thought they had revealed the entire film.… Continue reading Trap Review | A Middling Psychological Thriller With a Solid Josh Hartnett

Deadpool & Wolverine Review | An R-Rated Laugh Riot That’s Thin on Plot but Thick on Entertainment

Out of the Marvel movies, Deadpool isn’t the one where the audience anticipates a solid plot in order to be entertained. It is the fun we get because of the foul-mouthed fourth wall-breaking pop culture-rich meta-humor in the writing of those movies. With the Fox and Disney merger facilitating the availability of several characters from… Continue reading Deadpool & Wolverine Review | An R-Rated Laugh Riot That’s Thin on Plot but Thick on Entertainment

Twisters Review | A Passable Disaster Film With Predictable Beats

Being from Kerala, tornados are not something I can relate to, and hence, the idea of a movie about the science behind tornados sounded compelling to me. Twisters, the latest Hollywood disaster film, is a stand-alone sequel to the 1996 movie Twister, which was also about tornados. While the insightful information about tornados and the… Continue reading Twisters Review | A Passable Disaster Film With Predictable Beats

Longlegs Review | A Display of Meticulous, Classical Filmmaking With Indie Sensibilities

Longlegs, the latest horror film from Osgood Perkins, is an innovative mixture of genres. It has a very eerie backdrop, and Perkins uses a brilliantly captured opening sequence to set the film’s mood. Post that, when the aspect ratio expands, you are sort of trying to figure out the trajectory the movie may take as… Continue reading Longlegs Review | A Display of Meticulous, Classical Filmmaking With Indie Sensibilities

Despicable Me 4 Review | Funny for Sure, but With Clear Signs of Fatigue

The Despicable Me franchise hasn’t been giving movies that could create the same level of entertainment compared to its first part. The repetitiveness and the over-dependency on minions had made the films less exciting on an anticipation level. When it comes to Despicable Me 4, it is definitely enjoyable. But how much of it is… Continue reading Despicable Me 4 Review | Funny for Sure, but With Clear Signs of Fatigue