Reviews written by Mubashra Munir Baig
There are movies that entertain you, and then there are movies that pull you in completely and make you forget where you are. Inception is one of those. Fifteen years later, Christopher Nolan’s dream-within-a-dream epic still feels just as sharp, bold, and unlike anything else Hollywood has made since....
David Fincher’s 2010 masterpiece turns the creation of Facebook into a cold, fast, and oddly heartbreaking story about ego, friendship, and the price of wanting to be seen. Jesse Eisenberg’s Mark Zuckerberg isn’t your typical genius. He’s awkward, painfully sharp, and emotionally tone-deaf. The kind of guy...
Few films are as intoxicating, infuriating, and relentless as The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s a movie that celebrates, mocks, and questions greed. Martin Scorsese takes Jordan Belfort’s memoir, the true story of a Wall Street conman who built an empire on lies, drugs, and charisma, and turns it...
There are films that grab you instantly, and then there are films that quietly take root. The Shawshank Redemption belongs firmly to the latter. It’s not loud, not flashy, and certainly wasn’t a hit when it first arrived. It struggled at the box office and walked away from awards...
For a director as restless as Steven Soderbergh, Black Bag should’ve been a slam dunk. Instead, what we get is a film that feels like it’s been engineered rather than directed: efficient, cool to the touch, and curiously hollow. The story revolves around George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender),...
You’d think that putting Robert De Niro in two mob roles, directed by Barry Levinson, would be an offer no film lover could refuse. Yet The Alto Knights somehow makes that offer and still manages to underdeliver. It’s a film of pedigree and promise, the director of Rain Man,...
The 2025 How to Train Your Dragon remake feels like flying on autopilot. It’s breathtaking at first glance, but strangely hollow once the wind dies down. Directed by Dean DeBlois, the same filmmaker who made the original animated classic soar, this live-action version is a triumph of technology and...
It Ends With Us wants to be an emotional gut punch. A raw story about breaking free from abuse and inherited trauma. Instead, it’s a clumsy, tone-deaf soap opera dressed like a fashion experiment gone wrong. Directed by Justin Baldoni and starring Blake Lively, this adaptation...
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later arrives carrying the weight of legacy and the curse of expectation. It’s the third chapter in a saga that helped define 21st-century horror, yet this time the rage feels different. The film is ambitious, moody, and sometimes mesmerizing, but it’s also...
Superman (2025) James Gunn’s Superman isn’t a bad movie. It’s a confused one. A bright, hopeful reboot weighed down by the very cinematic universe it’s trying to ignite. It so desperately wants to be the light that saves the DCU that it forgets to just be a movie....
