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Vikas Yadav
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Film Critic at Midgard Times
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"Watching Episode 8, it feels as though #AndyMuschietti whispered, 'Leave the kids and eat up as much time as possible,' into #Pennywise's ear."

Thoughts on the eighth episode of #ITWelcomeToDerry:
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HBO’s ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Episode 8 Review - Foggy Business
Watching Episode 8, it feels as though Andy Muschietti whispered,
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December 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Was very bored by Rian Johnson's #WakeUpDeadManAKnivesOutMystery.

REVIEW:
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‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ (2025) Netflix Movie Review - A Boring Whodunit
What renders this third Knives Out installment dull is Johnson's inability to let his actors bounce off one another. They all seem to exist in isolation, as if they were filmed separately and placed t...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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A Rowan Atkinson show that leaves you frustrated, depressed, annoyed.

Review, #ManVsBaby:
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‘Man vs. Baby’ Netflix Series Review - Rowan Atkinson's Latest Will Test Your Patience
Man vs. Baby is not even remotely funny.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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#TheAccident / #Accidente maintains its streak of blandness in its second season.

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Netflix ‘The Accident’ Season 2 Review - Sex, Violence and Revenge
The Accident is tame and vacuous.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Noah Baumbach's #JayKelly is forgettable and fine. The concepts it deals with are the kind one finds "deep" after getting drunk on a boys' night.

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‘Jay Kelly’ (2025) Netflix Movie Review - Noah Baumbach's Fine and Forgettable Comedy Drama
Jay Kelly simply evaporates while you're watching. It's a sugar-candy of a film — sweet, fine, forgettable.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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In its current form, #TheAbandons isn't even a show — it's damage control issued precipitously, casually, indifferently.

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‘The Abandons’ (2025) Netflix Series Review - Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey Deserve Better
In its current form, The Abandons isn't even a show — it's damage control issued precipitously, casually, indifferently.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Thoughts on the sixth episode of #ITWelcomeToDerry:
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HBO’s ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Episode 6 Review - A Pirate and a Knight
Plagued by increasingly dark visions, Dick learns the Black Spot is integral to Charlotte's plan. Meanwhile, Will faces his parents' disapproval, Marge stands up to the Patty Cakes, and Lilly's mental...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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In #AllTheEmptyRooms, Joshua Seftel gets close to something so intimate and personal that the short achieves a kind of universality.

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‘All the Empty Rooms’ (2025) Netflix Review - Joshua Seftel's Moving Documentary
All the Empty Rooms is not merely about America and its gun problem—it's about us and our suffering, suffering caused by people who don't value humanity.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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There is a big difference between the #LeftHandedGirl Shih-Ching Tsou has made and the Left-Handed Girl she thinks she has made.

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‘Left-Handed Girl’ (2025) Netflix Movie Review - Shih-Ching Tsou's Impersonal Drama
There is a big difference between the Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou has made and the Left-Handed Girl she thinks she has made.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Watching Yorgos Lanthimos's #Bugonia is like being trapped in a basement with the director as he tells sick jokes that seem profound and funny only to himself.

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‘Bugonia’ (2025) Movie Review - Yorgos Lanthimos's Mild, Static Apocalypse
If ever a film announced that its director is out of creative juice, it's this one.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Most Rewatched Thanksgiving Weekend Movies According to JustWatch: (1/2)

1) Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
2) Knives Out (2019)
3) Wicked (2024)
4) The Hunger Games (2012)
5) A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Been a while since I cried after watching a movie.

Review, #TrainDreams:
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‘Train Dreams’ (2025) Netflix Movie Review - Clint Bentley's Lovely, Moving Drama
Clint Bentley's Train Dreams is a very sad film. In fact, it's one of the saddest films I have seen this year.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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It's still impossible to hate #AManOnTheInside.

Thoughts on Season 2, streaming on #Netflix:
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Netflix ‘A Man on the Inside’ Season 2 Review - Still Charming, Still Entertaining
With the second season, A Man on the Inside continues its tradition of being fun, light, and charming.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Enjoyed #TheMightyNein (on #PrimeVideo from Nov 19).

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‘The Mighty Nein’ (2025) Prime Video Series Review - We Could All Use Some Friends
The Mighty Nein is set twenty years after the events of The Legend of Vox Machina, and like Vox Machina, it doesn't so much as reinvent the wheel as recycle it with exuberance.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#Malice (on #PrimeVideo) is self-contained, self-satisfied, and forgettable.

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‘Malice’ (2025) Prime Video Series Review - Self-Contained, Self-Satisfied, and Forgettable
The issue with this psychological thriller from James Wood is that it lacks a clear point of view; it feels disconnected from the characters’ emotions.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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"If the third season of #DelhiCrime is a patient in the ICU, the terrific actors are its oxygen cylinders."

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Netflix ‘Delhi Crime’ Season 3 Review - Terrific Actors In A Disposable Crime Drama
As a cinematic experience, Delhi Crime Season 3 is eligible for punishment for weakening the image of a series that initially arrived like a storm.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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#MrsPlaymen could merely be a shrine to the woman who burned Italy with scandals and naked bodies. That shrine, though, is simply a repetitive showreel.

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‘Mrs Playmen’ (2025) Netflix Series Review - A Repetitive Showreel
Riccardo Donna tells the story at a brisk pace, giving the impression of cramming everything into a tight space for easy consumption. This cramming reduces the story to mere highlights.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Some thoughts on the third episode of #ITWelcomeToDerry:
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HBO’s ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Episode 3 Review - A Reunion, A Ritual, and A Slingshot
The third episode of It: Welcome to Derry is titled
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November 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein is a dud. An emotionally hollow, visually bland film devoid of passion and madness. Del Toro overdecorates his frames but can't conjure a sense of giddiness.

REVIEW:
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‘Frankenstein’ (2025) Netflix Movie Review - Guillermo del Toro Gives You A Dud
The sights and sounds in Frankenstein don't leave you ecstatic — Guillermo del Toro's direction is tediously studious.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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#DeathByLightning (on #Netflix) is just bland and uninspiring.

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‘Death by Lightning’ (2025) Netflix Series Review - O President! My President!
In Death by Lightning, Mike Makowsky, the show's creator, remembers the 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield, and mourns his loss.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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With #BadGirl, #VarshaBharath makes a striking directorial debut with a voice so distinct it automatically rises above the sea of mediocre, unimaginative visions.

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‘Bad Girl’ JioHotstar Movie Review - Varsha Bharath's Original, Striking Directorial Debut
With Bad Girl, Varsha Bharath has not just made a striking feature-film debut — she has announced herself as one of the most promising, exciting, and uninhibited filmmakers working today, with a voice...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Season 2 of #MaxtonHallTheWorldBetweenUs (on #PrimeVideo from Nov 7) is all about hierarchical power and how the person at the top can abuse those at the bottom.

REVIEW:
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‘Maxton Hall – The World Between Us’ Season 2 Prime Video Series Review - Ruby the Rebel
Season 2 of Maxton Hall is all about hierarchical power and how the person at the top can abuse those at the bottom.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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#HumansInTheLoop (now on #Netflix) belongs to its cinematographers and its actors. Writer-director Aranya Sahay only undermines the movie's strengths. He fills it with unimaginative, obvious touches.

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‘Humans in the Loop’ (2025) Netflix Movie Review - Aranya Sahay's Self-Sabotage
Humans in the Loop suffers from obviousness. Its themes and text seem like traps for critics, inviting them to lap up its obviousness and feel clever about themselves.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Famke Janssen and her mean girl energy.

Review, #AmsterdamEmpire:
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‘Amsterdam Empire’ (2025) Netflix Series Review - Famke Janssen and Her Mean Girl Energy
A series like Amsterdam Empire relieves the viewer of the obligation to invest emotionally in its characters. Since everyone is morally compromised, the question of who wins or loses becomes irrelevan...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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"Sentimentality is what #EdwardBerger goes for — he leans on it hard and hopes it covers up the thinness with which he imagines his story, his characters, his world."

Review, #BalladOfASmallPlayer:
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‘Ballad of a Small Player’ (2025) Netflix Movie Review - Colin Farrell Faces Gambling Addiction
In Ballad of a Small Player, Edward Berger goes crazy with kooky angles and dreamlike situations.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM