Allied movie review

The movie opens up in a jungle with a violent accident and a murder. Police officer Banarjee takes the charge of investigation to trace the missing persons. After an hour, the story shifts to the Dandeli forest and the number of murders goes up by the end of the first half. But this portion, which has a couple of romantic songs, has too many loopholes and characterisation is also very confusing. The first half fails to create a sense of horror or suspense. … [Read more...] about Aravind 2 – Movie Review

Doucouré is crafting a morality tale here, just not an obvious one — she prefers to observe her characters rather than outright judge them. And given that she has such a keen antenna for capturing how actual adolescents behave, the César-winning director turns Cuties into something closer at times to a nature documentary than a handwringing melodrama. Even the group’s outré routines, clearly age-inappropriate yet all too familiar to anyone who’s suffered through a tween dance recital, are uncomfortable but clearly aren’t run-of-the mill male-gaze lechery. Everything from peer pressure to post-makeover victory laps to the vamping for phone cameras, Instagram, viral videos etc. is seen through Amy’s wide eyes, which — thanks to Youssouf’s extraordinary, no-filter performance — fools us into thinking we’re watching someone hard-knock their way to maturity in real time. Amy thinks a second-hand pantomime of sexualized … [Read more...] about ‘Cuties’ Review: A Coming-of-Age Movie Caught in the Culture Wars

Cadaver (October 22) Cadaver is a Norwegian psychological horror film that takes us on a journey where humanity is being put to a test and stars among others Gitte Witt, Thorbjørn Harr, Thomas Gullestad) and Kingsford Siayor. In the starving aftermath of a nuclear disaster, Leonora (Gitte Witt), Jacob (Thomas Gullestad) and their daughter Alice (Tuva Olivia Remman) are on the edge of survival. One day, the local hotel invites survivors to attend a theatre play, with a meal included, as a charitable effort to help those in need. Left with no choice, the family of three decide to go to the hotel, where the director, Mathias (Thorbjørn Harr), introduces the entire hotel as the stage. Attendees are given masks to help separate them from actors, but the play takes an eerie turn when audience members start to disappear. The line between reality and theatre quickly gets blurred, until Alice disappears in front of Leo and Jacob, and there's no longer room for doubt: Something is very … [Read more...] about Netflix and Chills: Every New Scary Movie and TV Show Streaming on Netflix for Halloween Time

It's 1943, nighttime on an air base in Auckland, and Moretz's Maude Garrett walks up to a plane to inform its startled crew she has been given orders to join them. She carries a sturdy leather satchel whose contents are secret. The flyboys are skeptical. They can read the orders she hands them, but no way will they accept that this dame deserves to be called Flight Officer Garrett, no matter how many transport planes she may have flown. Not knowing what to do with her, Captain Reeves (Callan Mulvey) sticks her in the Sperry turret — the exposed little bubble of glass on the belly of the plane, where a gunner would normally sit. It's not big enough for her and her cargo, so Quaid (Taylor John Smith), the only airman not joining in the disrespectful banter, promises he'll keep the box safe. … [Read more...] about ‘Shadow in the Cloud’: Film Review | TIFF 2020

On the occasion of their November 1970 meeting, neither Welles nor Hopper knew what a long and winding road lay ahead for each of them. They were, respectively, 55 and 34, and conducted their sit-down from different but related positions on the career spectrum: one the legendary creator of 1941's Citizen Kane — "the directorial debut against which all others are measured," as Hopper/Welles' succinct introductory title cards put it — the other a New Hollywood hot commodity in the tailwinds of Easy Rider's success. Back on SoCal terra firma after many years of self-imposed exile in Europe, Welles believed he was primed for a comeback, and was eager for box office success. Hopper was headed for a fall and his own exile from the biz. … [Read more...] about ‘Hopper/Welles’: Film Review | Venice 2020