“The Spiritual Prankster”
Nicolas Pesce took a giant swing and missed when he decided to helm another installment in the long-running “Grudge” series of films. Unfortunately, this rendition of the haunted house tale does very little to... Read the full review »
Greta Gerwig is literally the best writer in Hollywood. That’s it, that’s all I have to say. No, but seriously, Greta Gerwig’s uncanny ability to make characters sound Shakespearean yet simultaneously colloquial is a gift that nobody else ha... Read the full review »
The Farewell had big shoes to fill in being the first indie film I’d seen in theaters since Eighth Grade, but it was more than up to the task, thrashing my expectations while delivering one of the most genuine and heartfelt movies of the year. T... Read the full review »
Apart from Star Wars, 1917 was my most anticipated movie of 2019, and not only did it meet my expectations, but managed to also contain one of my favorite musical scores from the past few years. George Mackay and Dean-Charles Chapman star in this... Read the full review »
Greta Gerwig’s relationship counterpart Noah Baumbach managed to outdo her this year in terms of best film, but I have heard that there’s quite a bit of dialogue in Marriage Story that Gerwig wrote, and if that’s true, I’m not surprised in... Read the full review »
The Irishman feels like the last movie of Martin Scorsese’s career, and even though it won’t be, it will undoubtedly be forever held as a bastion of mafia filmmaking, and one of the director’s finest achievements ever. From the very first sh... Read the full review »
One of two foreign language films on this list, Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends the language barrier to deliver a thoroughly authentic tapestry of love, gender and unbridled passion. Celine Sciamma’s direction is effortlessly stunning, put... Read the full review »
Parasite to me, is undoubtedly the best movie of 2019, and is now one of my favorite movies of all time. From the mind of visionary director Bong Joon Ho, Parasite is a Korean Social Thriller about a poor family that cons their way into leeching o... Read the full review »
The Last Jedi was in my top 3 favourite movies of 2017, and I am no where near ashamed of saying it; because of this among other things, Knives Out was one of my most anticipated movies of 2019. Rian Johnson writes what might be the most intricate... Read the full review »
I can’t muster the strength to get angry at what “The Grudge” presented me because the very formula it inheres itself to is the blueprint, the standard for how every single horror film that comes out nowadays is supposed to be like and at th... Read the full review »
This final chapter in the IP Man franchise hits a thrilling, tense and emotional albeit uneven chord with IP Man 4: The Finale. The core fundamentals and bare necessities that stuck with the previous ones installments are still here and in full fo... Read the full review »
In The Tall Grass is overgrown with flimsy dialogue and a premise that needed landscaping. Stephen King seems to have an endless amount of material to adapt. So much so, that his son is mimicking the footsteps of his father by also writing horror-... Read the full review »
To be fair to director J.J. Abrams, he came into “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” with two strikes against him. Not only did he have no coherent umbrella storyline that’s been put in place for the series of new films, but one of his stars... Read the full review »
A decade of death and damnation has passed, and now we move onto another. But hey, I’ve given up all hope in enough of these diaries’ forewords. Isn’t it best that I keep my spirits up rather than dwell on the negatives? I’m going to start...