S.K. Chishty
2021's Best in Review: Azor
A film of menacing subtlety. "We are at a purification phase... parasites must be eradicated" Private banker Ivan De Wiel (Fabrizio...
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Opinionated Film Reviews
S.K. Chishty
- Dec 6, 2021
- 2 min
Film Review: Demonic (2021)
Blomkamp's newfound 'neatness' is even worse than his messiness. Listless and dull, Demonic is a purported change of pace for the...
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S.K. Chishty
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
Film Review: Old (2021)
Interesting, but oddly uninvolving. During a tropical vacation, a family discovers themselves trapped on an 'exclusive' island where time...
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S.K. Chishty
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
Malignant (2021)
Visually uninspired wanna-be Giallo. Malignant is being touted by some as the film James Wan would have made much earlier in his career...
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S.K. Chishty
- Jun 25, 2021
- 3 min
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
Zahler's film wears its blood-splattered grindhouse influences on its sleeves. Broken teeth, smashed-up faces, shattered limbs, and...
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S.K. Chishty
- Jun 18, 2021
- 2 min
Pervyy uchitel (The First Teacher, 1965)
Konchalovskiy's film admirably prefers nuance over propaganda. In 1924, a former Red Army soldier is sent to the remote village of...
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S.K. Chishty
- Jun 12, 2021
- 2 min
Infinite
Fuqua goes for 'The Matrix' but delivers 'Jupiter Ascending'. Infinite's casually tossed flimsy opening exposition tells us that the...
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S.K. Chishty
- May 31, 2021
- 3 min
Cruella (2021)
Entertaining, yes. But also a cop-out. Agreed that Cruella DeVil is not exactly one of the great villains of children's fiction. But the...
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S.K. Chishty
- May 31, 2021
- 3 min
Seance (2021)
Atmospheric and involving, yet oddly unsatisfying. After a prank that involves reconjuring the ghost of a girl who had killed herself on...
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S.K. Chishty
- May 17, 2021
- 5 min
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Joe Wright's foray into the noirish world is thin, unsatisfying, and very Netflix. Plot: An agoraphobic woman Anna Fox (Amy Adams)...
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S.K. Chishty
- May 13, 2021
- 2 min
Oxygene (French, 2021)
Mostly, a softening of Aja's chops as a genre director. Currently, for Indians, the word oxygen is loaded with heartbreak and anger. As I...
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S.K. Chishty
- May 13, 2021
- 2 min
Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
Thankfully, the film's economy is not confined to its budget. Released as a double-bill along with Roger Corman's The Wasp Woman, Beast...
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S.K. Chishty
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
The Father (2021)
The film effectively plumbs down the depth of a mind losing its grip on reality. French playwright and novelist Florian Zeller makes his...
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S.K. Chishty
- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
Film Review: Witness to Murder (1954)
The unrealized subtext is more powerful than the film. Just like My Name is Julia Ross squanders its potential for commenting on class...
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S.K. Chishty
- May 12, 2021
- 2 min
Film Reviews: My Name is Julia Ross (1945)
An underseen & intriguing attempt at a Gothic thriller misses its mark. A down-on-her-luck Julia Ross (Nina Foch) recovering from an...
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S.K. Chishty
- Apr 3, 2021
- 3 min
Film Review: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
A heady mix of trashy exploitation and undeniable artistry. Body horror fans expecting any gross out transformation scenes are bound to...
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S.K. Chishty
- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
Mini-Review: Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Handsome soap-opera! Two sisters, Marriane and Marguirette (Lana Turner and Donna Reed, respectively) compete for the attention of the...
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S.K. Chishty
- Apr 1, 2021
- 3 min
Film Review: Ucho (The Ear) (1970)
Chilling satire of state's invasion into the personal. In the late '60s, Czechoslovakia enjoyed a brief period of Liberalisation, known...
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S.K. Chishty
- Mar 1, 2021
- 4 min
Film Review: Shin Godzilla (2016)
The Japanese still know how to do this right. Shin Godzilla is Toho Studio's 30th incarnation of Godzilla, making it the longest-running...
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S.K. Chishty
- Feb 28, 2021
- 3 min
Film Review: Kajillionaire (2020)
Miranda July's movement towards more expansive pastures parallel her protagonist's. It is wonderfully bracing to see women directors...
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