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IR Film Review: BALLERINA [Summit/Lionsgate]
The essence of action is seeing with the eyes of your protagonist. "Ballerina" does very well in this regards though it does require a little bit of set up to get the idea going. The structure works in this way because you can't simply drop Ana de Armas into killing mode without showing in some basic way, shape and form how she got there.
IR Film Review: MONKEY MAN [Universal]
"Monkey Man" in certain ways wants to be the second coming of "John Wick" but from an Indian point of view. While what star/director Dev Patel does is admirable and his heart is fully in it, the movie doesn't truly hit its stride until the last 1/4 of the film.
IR Film Review: JOHN WICK - CHAPTER 4 [Lionsgate]
The tenaciousness of John Wick has turned into something ethereal, less realistic in any sense and more the aspect of myth in his path of nilistic existence. With "John Wick: Chapter 4", the ampage continues to build but like samurais of old, using certain contemplations and ideas of what can be to make the world spin.