S.K. Chishty
Film Review: Palmer (2021)
Palmer struggles against two sets of clichés - of its story and of its location. In the trailer review of Palmer, that Abha Dhyani wrote...
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S.K. Chishty
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Film Review: Kris (Crisis, 1946)
The great Ingmar Bergman's debut is an uninteresting melodrama. Part of Early Bergman, #1 of Criterion Collection's Eclipse Series, a...
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S.K. Chishty
- Jan 26, 2021
- 4 min
Film Review: PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020)
A powerful, stylish takedown of toxic masculinity. Set to throbbing all-women, pop soundtrack, Promising Young Woman is a powerful and...
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S.K. Chishty
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
Film Review: Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
A rare courtroom drama that puts the audience into the position of a jury. What do you think when you think of courtroom dramas? Blazing...
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S.K. Chishty
- Dec 6, 2020
- 4 min
Film Review: The Devils (1971)
Ken Russell's one-of-a-kind attack on conformity still has the power to shock. In "De Palma", a documentary on Brian DePalma, the...
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S.K. Chishty
- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
La Vérité (The Truth) (France, 1960)
Criterion's blu-ray does justice with late-career Clouzot triumph starring a great Brigette Bardot. Sometimes while watching a film the...
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S.K. Chishty
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Film Review: The Dark and the Wicked (2020),
Bleak and atmospheric, Bertino knows what he's aiming for. The family has been an important component of horror cinema. Most horror...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 24, 2020
- 5 min
Halloween Month Review: Antebellum (2020)
I propose that Veronica/Eden is actually a white person who happens to be Black.
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 21, 2020
- 4 min
Bed and Sofa (1927, Russia)
Tretya meshchanskaya is a mysteriously lesser-known masterpiece of silent cinema. Made allegedly in support of the state-sponsored...
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Aabha Dhyaani
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
Halloween Month Review: Hubie Halloween (2020)
Adam Sandler reprises his man-child act for the umpteenth time with surprising results. If you have taken time out to watch an Adam...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 19, 2020
- 2 min
Halloween Month Review: The Wretched (2020)
This is homage without feeling... but you can do a lot worse with your night. A troubled teenager Ben (John-Paul Howard) comes to stay...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween Month Review: The Lodge (2020)
The film's style has more heft than the content. One of the main problems I had with 2018's critical darling Hereditary was that its...
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S.K. Chishty
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween Month Review: La Llorona (2019)
For better or for worse, this is one of the most overtly political horror films you'll see. Also known as "The Weeping Woman", this film...
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Aabha Dhyaani
- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
Halloween Month Review: The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
Disney's scariest film? The horror scene changed considerably since the release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). It brought forth...
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S.K. Chishty
- Sep 20, 2020
- 4 min
Film Review: A film called 'Film' by Samuel Beckett
Today, Beckett's film can be deciphered as a warning against Social Media excesses and surveillance. Samuel Beckett wrote only one...
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S.K. Chishty
- Sep 13, 2020
- 5 min
Film Review: i'm thinking of ending things
Kaufman's literal mindedness is at odds with his 'Lynchian' dream logic. The work of Charlie Kaufman has been nothing if not cerebral....
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S.K. Chishty
- Sep 11, 2020
- 2 min
Film Review: Chess Fever (1925)
Proof that silent Russian cinema is not only required viewing for serious film appreciation students. Thanks to their lofty presence in...
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S.K. Chishty
- Sep 1, 2020
- 2 min
Film Review: La Cigarette (1919)
Germaine Dulac's psychological drama pre-dates what came to be called 'Hitchcockian'. One of the first women director's working in the...
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S.K. Chishty
- Aug 24, 2020
- 3 min
Film Review: Las niñas bien (The Good Girls) (Spanish, 2018)
Writer & Director Alejandra Márquez Abella skewers the Mexican high society against the backdrop of '82 financial crisis. In the '80's...
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S.K. Chishty
- Aug 23, 2020
- 2 min
Film Review: Paris (French, 2008)
A love letter to the iconic city goes nowhere. If interlocking multiple story lines a la Amores Perros or Love, Actually is not your...
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