Staying within the established lanes of its genre, playing every single scene by the books, and jam-packed with one cliché after another, Netflix’s Extraction does manage to impress in bits and pieces…
Tag: directorial debut
Championed by a truly sensational performance from Mads Mikkelsen who carries the entire film on his own without ever saying much, “Arctic” is one of the finest films of its kind that’s…
A folkloric tale of madness, paranoia & things that go bump in the night, The Wind is an exquisitely photographed & thoroughly unnerving atmospheric horror that makes terrific use of its desolate…
A slow-burn indie horror that benefits a lot from its remote setting, foreboding aura & restrained camerawork in addition to steady direction & sincere performances, The Hole in the Ground is a…
As fun, lively & gleeful as any unsupervised house party, Booksmart is a passionately crafted, gleefully narrated & wonderfully acted coming-of-age comedy that commences Olivia Wilde’s filmmaking journey on a promising note,…
Swedish actor turned writer/director Tuva Novotny’s debut film Blind Spot is an unromanticised and unflinching look at a teen’s mental illness without digging deep into the rationale behind it. Rather, it surgically…
