Every film is worth 5 stars when it begins. What happens over the course of it is what determines how many stars it loses.
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The Fall Guy 2024
As Deadpool 2 is the only other Leitch film I am familiar with, it seems that meta-action is his forte. And one does not need to look too deep to see where his ambitions lie. Jody's Mad-Max-meets-Star-Wars dream project simply wishes to make it to Hall H at Comic Con, and much like it, so is the film itself aiming to be a pure crowd-pleaser, one that mixes the thrills of an action film with the sentiment of a romantic…
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Manorama Six Feet Under 2007
Singh's remake of Chinatown has all the ingredients to rid any apprehension about the butchering of the source material. The finest choice here is the setting. A small town in Rajasthan has the exact mixture of lethargy and sociopolitical perils to make it feel like a Southern Gothic take on film noir. Yet in changing the climax after a horrid revelation, the effect of the film is blunted. If Satyaveer's ending is an understandable attempt at ensuring the everyman's return to his equilibrium, Rathore's fate comes across as a clumsy attempt at letting morality precede reality.
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The Fabelmans 2022
By focusing so heavily on the faces of his characters, Spielberg captures film's unparalleled ability to momentarily transport its viewer and also how transformative it can be. Sequences like his discovery of his mother's infidelity and the one with his estranged uncle add to the film's eclectic mixture of styles he is utilising here and for good reason. Unabashed in its sentimentality, sometimes to a fault, the ending is possibly his finest.
All that being said, the washed out, refined lighting style that Spielberg has been using as of late in his period films adds an artifice that he needs to do away with. -
LSD 2: Love, Sex aur Dhokha 2 2024
It is gratifying to watch a Bollywood film which appears to be informed by the news and not gossip columns. Banerjee shows our modern digital existence as the only place of our perpetual presence since the handful of scenes not taking place on screens appear unnaturally distant and detached. He is not interested in glamour beyond the extremity of its artifice and in that, he takes his film from the midst of social media's excess to an AI-generated world that, while feeling absurd, also hits too close home as a cautionary tale. This is an intelligent filmmaker, angry and unchained.
