With Martin McDonagh's marvelous pen and assured direction, coupled with the bewitching performances of Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson as two men with a failing friendship and quite an enthralling musical score from Carter Burwell, "The Banshees of Inisherin" ended up being one of the most spell-binding piece of cinema I've seen this 2022.

This film is one quiet, harrowing, humorous, ruminative and dark tale about a friendship nearing its end. It is beautiful and ugly at the same time. It…

"The moment you said you loved me, your love is over. The moment your love ends, my love begins."

Here's something unusual: the best love / romance film of 2022 for me is a Korean pseudo- whodunnit / police procedural.
Sounds weird, right? Well, that's because it really is weird. But as for any PCW avid fan, weird and unpredictable is a shoo-in in his style of filmmaking.
But to make things different, unlike his previous releases, "Decision to Leave"…

An arresting cinematic experience that satisfies, unsettles, cuts deep and broods with its enigmatic narrative, layered metaphors and calculatinngly hypnotic visual design.

I'm still in a state of bewilderment after my first viewing of Burning. So I might have to revisit this review after second (or third) viewing.

Anyhow, this Lee Chang-doing feature is a brimful piece of cinema. There's not a single thing that stays what it was in the beginning. From the mysteries that lie beneath each character,…

A visually experimental film about a tumultuous relationship between souls that have fallen out of ion.

As per WKW's trademark, it wallops aimlessly but is escalated by engrossing acting performances.
The result is a jarring, though sometimes dragging, antithesis of it's title.

Clearly not Wong Kar Wai's strongest effort, but it still holds up well after almost two decades since its release.
The film retains the splendor of beauty that is present in WKW's previous movies, though I find this…