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Hustle
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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While it’s no masterpiece, Hustle is an assured return to form for the sports drama, as it repeatedly lands the emotional blows it sets up.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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The Gray Man
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Netflix’s The Gray Man is its Most Expensive and Emptiest Star Vehicle
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Where the Crawdads Sing
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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it unfortunately runs the original story through the Hollywood machine, rendering it a surface-level and boilerplate experience that dilutes the emotional profundity of its source material. All the while being a borderline unbearable snooze fest.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Bullet Train
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Bullet Train’s driving engine quickly loses steam. Its runtime is never justified, especially when it chooses to prioritize odd tangents over cogent and streamlined storytelling.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Laal Singh Chaddha
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Like a box of “Gol Gappe” Laal Singh Chaddha adds a depth of flavour to what might otherwise have been an uninspired adaptation.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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The Silent Twins
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Heart-breaking on the surface but utterly boring where it counts.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Emily
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Frances O’Connor’s stunning debut finds poignant truths in speculation.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Kacchey Limbu
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Shubham Yogi’s feature debut undercooks both the sports and the drama
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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The Menu
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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The Menu perfectly and sharply captures the milieu of this fine dining world with a scathing takedown of the condescension and pretension that fuels it.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Aftersun
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Charlotte Wells’ picture-perfect debut visually epitomizes the heart-wrenching processes of memory.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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My Policeman
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Michael Grandage’s gay romance is a heartbreaking delight, even though it won’t win Harry Styles an Oscar.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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The Good Nurse
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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The Good Nurse is an Achingly Dull Foray into Medical Malpractice
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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The Whale
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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It’s Aronofsky’s most blunt and uninspired work yet— an indulgent and strident slice of misery porn that rides a wave of unearned emotion to its underwhelming conclusion.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Prisoner's Daughter
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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A family drama that lacks a fundamental understanding of drama.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Triangle of Sadness
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Ruben Östlund cements himself as the people’s satirist. Laying bare an incendiary critique of the 1% that never pats itself on the back, instead being the rare epic that invites its audience to take part in its blistering dismantlement of the idle rich.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Baby Ruby
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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While Bohl’s story is the epitome of a waking fever dream, it never becomes a gloomy slog. Instead, it’s imbued with a playful and inventive campiness that is emblematic of the absurdly torturous realities of parenthood.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Sisu
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Nazi-killing has never felt so frustratingly dull.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Pearl
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Ti West’s prequel cements the “X” Cinematic Universe as a force to be reckoned with.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Raymond & Ray
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Raymond & Ray succeeds as a cathartic and tender venture into gallows humour that charms just as much as it moves. It’s an insightful look at grief, reconciliation, and the empty, circus-like process of modern grieving.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Decision to Leave
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Park Chan-Wook’s police procedural is one of the most romantic films ever made.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Zwigato
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Nandita Das’s third feature film takes on the caste system and the corporatization of India with a heartfelt lens.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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A Gaza Weekend
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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A Gaza Weekend is an enjoyable, if wholly underbaked, satire that never rises above its surface-level jabs and gags, quickly stretching its central concept thin.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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The Lost King
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Stephen Frears brings Richard III back to life but forgets to give him a voice.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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The Wonder
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Much like the movie sets it depicts in its meta opening, The Wonder is similarly just an empty framework — narrative scaffolding that is never given life and a central purpose by its abridged storytelling.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Corsage
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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The annals of history become piercingly modern in this well-crafted period piece.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Amsterdam
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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David O. Russell’s latest outing is a glibly entertaining caper completely undone by its self-importance.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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All Quiet on the Western Front
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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All Quiet on The Western Front is a powerful and poignant treatise on the hopelessness of war that unearths newfound splendor in the ravaged battlefields of France.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Ticket to Paradise
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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It’s easy to pass off Ticket to Paradise as the quintessential airplane watch, something to put on to bide your time until you move on to bigger and better things but this ostensibly smooth, airy watch is the worst type of romantic comedy.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Prey for the Devil
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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While Stamm’s latest effort isn’t the worst the genre has on offer, it is one of the most frustrating— filled with promise that is quickly exorcized.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is not only the greatest animated film of the year but one of the greatest, period...what he’s created is the new definitive version of a story long made inessential.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Riceboy Sleeps
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Despite its melodramatic missteps, which veer too far away from its exploration of the immigrant perspective, Riceboy Sleep’s power as a poignant, wholly personal experience cannot be denied.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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All That Breathes
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Shaunak Sen’s transcendent documentary unearths beauty in the squalor of India’s urbanity.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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Sometimes I Think About Dying
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Daisy Ridley comes into her own in this magically sincere dramedy bound for “Indiedom”.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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3/5
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Talk to Me
(2023)
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Stephen Silver
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A decent effort, but doesn't hit like the best horror does.
Posted Aug 11, 2023
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She Said
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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While the film adeptly touches on the deafening silence with which sexual assault and harassment operate, its lack of style and technical prowess hinders the breadth and depth of emotion it seeks to attain.
Posted Aug 07, 2023
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EO
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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EO occupies a rare liminal space between bitter realism and stark surrealism, becoming a truly daring, dynamic project that repeatedly folds onto itself, manifesting as a completely different type of work as it continues.
Posted Aug 06, 2023
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Violent Night
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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It’s brimming with both warmth and cynicism, cementing a Santa perfectly attuned to the times and emblematic of the joy and anguish that pervades this time of year... a new Christmas classic.
Posted Aug 06, 2023
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Spoiler Alert
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Spoiler Alert, despite its lackluster direction and oddly generic seriocomedy, beats all the odds to reach a rare level of poignancy for mainstream efforts.
Posted Aug 06, 2023
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Babylon
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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All-embracing, all-consuming, and yet wholly intimate, Chazelle’s masterful epic is not only an ode to where film came from but where it will further journey to continue capturing our hearts, minds, and souls.
Posted Aug 06, 2023
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The Pale Blue Eye
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Though overly reliant on its familiar score, The Pale Blue Eye strikes a rare balance between macabre mystery and prestige drama, embedding itself within a middle ground that never ceases to entice and evoke a powerful sense of pathos.
Posted Aug 06, 2023
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Overflowing with ideas that all land, DreamWorks’s latest offering is surprisingly nuanced, wholly cathartic, and one of the best films of the year.
Posted Aug 06, 2023
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Living
(2022)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Though firmly in the colossal shadows of Kurosawa, Living’s ability to uplift and stir is never compromised, flourishing in a space few remakes ever graze.
Posted Aug 06, 2023
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When It Melts
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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It’s that provocative, near-the-knuckle marriage of adolescent confusion and untreated trauma that Baetens’s debut feature exists within...it leaves a bitter taste that is both earned and prescient.
Posted Jul 28, 2023
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Fair Play
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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A thriller that not only gets provocation right but drapes it in barbed wire, slicing through the false declarations and reassurances that mitigate the true role gender politics continue to play in each relationship and environment.
Posted Jul 28, 2023
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Magazine Dreams
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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A quaking mix of Taxi Driver and Whiplash that wades through the festering trenches of a man borne of rage...Jonathan Majors, in an unforgettable turn, escapes into Killan Maddox’s toxic gumbo of self-imposed pressure.
Posted Jul 28, 2023
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Cat Person
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Cat Person takes the obnoxiously unsubtle route, ballooning the intimate grey areas of the original viral story into inane, cut-and-dry moments.
Posted Jul 27, 2023
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Scrapper
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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A stark reality is filtered through the whimsical eyes of a precocious child in Charlotte Regan’s stunning, pastel-coloured debut.
Posted Jul 27, 2023
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4/5
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Barbie
(2023)
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Stephen Silver
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It's attempting to do many things at once, but does most of them well, most of the time.
Posted Jul 24, 2023
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Benedetta
(2021)
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Kent M. Wilhelm
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Verhoeven uses blasphemy like a butterfly knife to pierce the hypocritical doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church.
Posted Jul 24, 2023
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
(2021)
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Kent M. Wilhelm
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In The Tragedy of Macbeth, Coen's expertise allows him to paint a threatening world with an inspired and confident brush.
Posted Jul 24, 2023
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