We get Agatha Christie adaptations more often than you think; Kenneth Branagh recently took on “Murder on the Orient Express,” which was unfortunately not good. Despite the all-star cast, it lacked something. Same goes for “Crooked House,” an adaptation nobody watched. The audiences may love the “whodunit?” formula, but they are seemingly tired of uninspired […]
Month: January 2020
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The 25 Best Arthouse Films of The 2010s
Arthouse movies are difficult to describe and analyze. Art films aren’t made for money, and they’re not seen by a large number of people: they’re deep and intriguing, complex and daring. They’re often experimental, with symbolic content and made for artistic and aesthetic reasons. During the 2010s, many excellent art movies were released: it’s not […]
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Every A24 Movie From 2019 Ranked From Worst To Best
From its funding in 2012, A24 has helped revive the American independent cinema and has been the distributor and producer of many of this decade’s most acclaimed films. From Academy Award favorites (“Moonlight”, “Lady Bird”) to staples of modern horror cinema (“The Witch”, “Hereditary”) and career redefining movies for actors such as Robert Pattinson (“Good […]
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The 10 Most Overrated Movies of The 2010s
Subjectivity constrains and widens the lens through which we view and experience life, and our own taste of culture and art is widely determined by it. It is infinitely difficult to trace how subjectivity births in us – it can very well be the result of our hierarchical social standing or the cultural influence and […]
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The 10 Most Bizarre Movies of 2019
Joker, Jojo Rabbit, Us…these are just some of the films that weren’t weird enough to make it onto our list of the most bizarre films of the year. In a time when CGI and niche platforms allow genres to plumb the depths of fantasy, futurism, and depravity, what does it mean to be bizarre? Yet […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Movie Sequels of The 2010s
This decade has been filled with sequels, prequels, remakes, and reboots of sorts, and many have complained that Hollywood has lost its originality and is forever dependent on previously existing material. While it is true that there have been many unnecessary sequels made in the last ten years, it’s also true that revisiting the same […]