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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 2h

Jim Jarmusch's gentle, Golden Lion-winning triptych "Father Mother Sister Brother" balances the director's sardonic wit with a wistfulness for awkward, imperfect family reunions. A lovely trio of thematically inter-connected memories. #NYFF63 observer.com/2025/10/movi...

Screening at NYFF: Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’

This gentle drama—which won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival—seems unassuming at first but builds its three semi-related sagas both gradually and melodically,.

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Ernst Karel @sesamecircuits.bsky.social · 1d

nice mentions of the sound, e.g., "its most potent moments take the form of sounds disconnected from the images themselves.... the filmmakers never attempt to imitate sync sound and its reality; instead, there’s always a slight lag here or there, drawing attention to the artifice."

Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 6d

A mellifluous film of memories floating downstream, “Hair, Paper, Water” from Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý (one of my favourite filmmakers) follows an elderly Rục woman adjusting to the modern world, and adapts to her mode of language in turn #NYFF63 joysauce.com/a-grandmothe...

A grandmother floats homeward in ‘Hair, Paper, Water…’

Director of “Việt and Nam,” Trương Minh Quý returns to the remote Rục tribe for his latest documentary, which premiered at NYFF.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 1d

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 2d

At the center of “Tron: Ares” is a woefully miscast Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) and an unfortunately visible Jared Leto ("accusations from underage girls"), making even more unpleasant an already haphazard cinematic headache. joysauce.com/tron-ares-is...

‘Tron: Ares’ is a waste of time and talent

Greta Lee gets stuck inside a digital mess alongside Jared Leto in Joachim Rønning’s threequel to the 1980s classic.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 2d

At the center of “Tron: Ares” is a woefully miscast Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) and an unfortunately visible Jared Leto ("accusations from underage girls"), making even more unpleasant an already haphazard cinematic headache. joysauce.com/tron-ares-is...

‘Tron: Ares’ is a waste of time and talent

Greta Lee gets stuck inside a digital mess alongside Jared Leto in Joachim Rønning’s threequel to the 1980s classic.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 18d

You couldn’t make “One Battle After Another” today.

PTA's zany, explosive Pynchon riff elides political metaphors and grabs the zeitgeist by the throat. A riveting, hilarious revolutionary saga that makes for ecstatic blockbuster cinema. Out now: www.truthdig.com/articles/pau...

"One Battle After Another" Review: Paul Thomas Anderson's Intimate Revolution

“One Battle After Another,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a Molotov cocktail lobbed right at the studio system.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 3d

You best start believing in computers, Mr. Leto. You’re in one.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 4d

Oh dear

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 4d

Fascinated by the theological hodgepodge of Tron: Ares, in which a character named Eve grows a forbidden tree and plucks from it… an orange, of no significance or consequence, before granting eternal life to a guy named for the Greek god of war, who only desires Buddhist Moksha

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 4d

Bradley Cooper is 3 for 3 on films that, frustratingly, miss out on being great. Still think he has it in him, but in the meantime, the divorce-and-stand-up dramedy “Is This Thing On?” is good enough. #NYFF63 observer.com/2025/10/revi...

Screening at NYFF: Bradley Cooper’s ‘Is This Thing On?’

The story examines how creative release can both mask and magnify personal turmoil, tracing one man’s attempt to turn emotional chaos into performance.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 6d

Ronan Day-Lewis might make a great film someday, if the flourishes of “Anemone” are anything to go by. He hasn’t quite found himself, but as Daniel Day-Lewis’s return after 8 years—in one of his more gut-wrenching, vulnerable roles—it’s worthwhile. #NYFF63 observer.com/2025/10/nyff...

Screening at NYFF: Ronan Day-Lewis’s ‘Anemone’

His directorial debut is filled with powerful ideas, even if it doesn’t cohere enough to be consistently engaging.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 6d

A mellifluous film of memories floating downstream, “Hair, Paper, Water” from Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý (one of my favourite filmmakers) follows an elderly Rục woman adjusting to the modern world, and adapts to her mode of language in turn #NYFF63 joysauce.com/a-grandmothe...

A grandmother floats homeward in ‘Hair, Paper, Water…’

Director of “Việt and Nam,” Trương Minh Quý returns to the remote Rục tribe for his latest documentary, which premiered at NYFF.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 6d

Archival documentary “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost,” in which Ben Stiller chronicles his late comedian parents, has breadth of emotional ambition, but ends up rote in execution. Tragically, it feels like anyone could’ve made it. #NYFF63 decider.com/2025/10/09/s...

NYFF 2025: Ben Stiller's archival documentary ‘Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost’ never quite finds its footing

Since nearly every scene feels like a climactic montage, the movie ends up robbed of anything resembling catharsis.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 6d

“A House of Dynamite” is a huge departure from Kathryn Bigelow’s other military films, whether or not she means it to be. Silly and frustrating in parts, it makes for a tense, surprisingly funny junk food thriller steeped in lost idealism. #NYFF63

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 7d

There was also The Blue Trail, which won the Silver Bear at Berlin this year

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 7d

One of the most accomplished and dramatically precise debuts in years, Sophy Romvari’s “Blue Heron” is a powerful film about the tragic weight of memory. observer.com/2025/10/tiff...

Screening at BFI London Film Festival: Sophy Romvari’s ‘Blue Heron’

By the time the film’s credits roll, you may feel more spiritually connected to yourself and those you’ve lost.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 9d

Some notes on The Rock's performance in "The Smashing Machine," where it fits into his career, and how it's the latest, arguably necessary business calculation for his floundering brand image—none of which is a bad thing given where he goes emotionally joysauce.com/the-rock-reb...

The Rock, rebooted

Benny Safdie’s latest film, "The Smashing Machine," gives the mega-star a much-needed makeover as MMA fighter Mark Kerr.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 9d

In light of Daniel Day-Lewis’s return after 8 years, I went back through 4 decades of his performances to write about and rank some of the very best, including some you might not expect: www.backstage.com/magazine/art...

The 15 Greatest Daniel Day-Lewis Performances, Ranked

As the legendary actor returns from an eight-year absence, we look back at his tremendous body of work.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 10d

In case you haven't figure out, this is about the 4K restoration of "Sholay" 🙂

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 11d

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17d

I’m never going to stop being mad that hedge funds and tech middlemen siphoned off all the money that should’ve let someone like Kaleb Horton have the career he deserved

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 11d

#NYFF63

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 11d

Ha!

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 12d

“Dear Stranger” follows a Japanese husband and a Taiwanese-American wife, in a New York-set tale of intrigue that wields the awkward intricacies of English as a 2nd (or 3rd) language to enhance its drama. Also, Hidetoshi Nishijima drives his car. #BIFF2025 joysauce.com/dear-strange...

‘Dear Stranger’ finds a couple at their breaking point

Tetsuya Mariko’s Japan-Taiwan-U.S. production applies a unique lens to modern Asian American-ness in this domestic drama.

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Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 13d

“The son of a tobacco farmer who, as a young man, worked alongside immigrants during the summers of his youth. In doing so, he learned the values of hard work, collective action, and perhaps most importantly, respect for his fellow man."

Cowboy shit.

HANGMAN PAGE @hangmanpage.bsky.social · 13d

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:

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