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December Favorites + 2025 Wrap Up New Releases Cloud dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa For all the movies this year that were lauded for tapping into modern paranoia and the urge for constant upward mobility, I thought Cloud was the one that felt equally chilling and absurdly funny
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Some Thoughts just as a Lover of CINEMA!! No theatres for an Low budget Indie film #Salliyargal Censor delay causing postponement of a Big budget Big Star like Vijay Sir's film #JanaNayagan slated to release tomorrow... Bookings are yet to open in many centres due to issue of
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The release of Vijay’s final film ‘Jana Nagayan’ has been delayed due to “due to unavoidable circumstances beyond our control,” the production company announces. It was supposed to release on January 9th.
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there's a profound dramatic difference between building suspense/tension (as in "Uncut Gems") & just noise, stage busyness, slapstick farce (as in parts of "Marty Supreme") in which the audience has little emotional investment & is waiting patiently for the silliness to end & the
@JoyceCarolOates Aww but I think each subplot adds to the overall stress of the film, one of my favorite aspects of the Safdie style. they don't always just fall off but you know they could still be a plate spinning in the background, building that tension through the dramatic irony.
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it's a movie, though, not real life
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Id agree with you if there wasn't an entire generation out there that essentially wants and craves this
"The fiction cannot be propaganda" crowd has to be one of the stupidiest groups of ppl I've ever encountered
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Alappuzha Gymkhana dir Khalid Rahman Like Happyend, so strong in it's grounding of teen relationships that just feels refreshing. Rahman is not concerned with scale or stakes and it allows it all to just feel light/natural in a way you don't often see with boxing and sports film
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The Secret Agent dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho Like Close Your Eyes, a vision into how images and cinema bridge our relationship to our pasts and others. Where this really shines is its immediacy wrt community, and when it delves into genre pleasures it is very satisfying
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mostly due to its clarity of vision and strong supporting cast, Mysskin and George Maryan are phenomenal and this is maybe the first movie to get GVM to look like he is having fun.
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Dragon dir Ashwath Marimuthu I understand the pushback against PR in the circles I follow, as he represents an outdated form of comedy. Ashwath understands this and builds a strong comedy of errors about a terrible/juvenile person getting his comeuppance and it just works-
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Little Jaffna dir. Lawrence Valin Portrait of a Young Man in the Diaspora. The unending conflict between assimilation and the urge for community. The finale of this is such a strong gut punch, and I fell in love with Valin's confident visual language and form
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Bad Girl dir. Varsha Bharath Effortlessly deconstructing the absurdity of conservative Tamil culture through the stages of a young girls life. Wonderful period touches and filled with so much specificity that it's really difficult not to fall in love with.
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Retro dir. Karthik Subbaraj In an age of compromise, leave it to Karthik Subbaraj to go all in on his personal interests, flairs, and style. It's messy, but it sustains itself thru the emotions (and lack thereof) of its lead. Film Album of the year from Santhosh Narayanan.
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28 Years Later dir. Danny Boyle My favorite Hollywood film this year, anchored by a wonderful child lead performance from Alfie Williams. My mind keeps coming back to that chilling party scene again and again. Filled with so many great images and earnest melodrama.
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