Category: film reviews

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Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

A creature believed to be a sea dragon destroys the Tang Dynasty’s ships, a courtesan is offered as sacrificed and a love story ends up entangled with the dirty plans to topple the government once and for all.

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Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

By the time I got to watch my second Bhansali movie, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of his picture frames, and how the aesthetics in his work enhanced my movie experience. Seriously, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam has got to be the most beautiful movie EVER to include a fart joke in it.

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Khamoshi: The Musical

Deaf mute parents have a hearing baby who grows up and gets caught between her love for them, her love for music and her love for life in Silence: The Musical.

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+1 (American Film)

For a film with advertising that plays out like something that looks like an immense party movie, +1 actually rises to be more than just that.

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Black (Indian Film)

Black is Bhansali’s Indian re-imagining of the Helen Keller story — in here, we follow Michelle McNally as she narrates the story of her life as a deaf and blind girl and the relationship with her teacher.

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Caught in the Web

After being diagnosed with advanced lymphatic cancer, beautiful hard-working Ye Lanqiu is caught in the nightmarish bus that will ruin hers and the lives of everyone that’s around her when she refuses to give her seat to an elder and is caught on camera.

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Gravity (2013)

Alfonso Cuarón’s sci-fi action piece is just as much a meditation on life, death, and humanity’s will to survive as it is an engaging thrill ride.

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Elysium

Elysium paints our dystopian world in the year 2154 — obviously overpopulated while the rich 1% are able to live in a massive pristine habitable space station known as Elysium where life is pretty perfect, at the expense of the rest who still live in Earth ridden with diseases, poverty and the whole shebang.

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Heat, The (2013)

There’s something about The Heat that’s more disappointing than anything that your average buddy-cop movie might deliver.