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Kaiser Khan is Founder & Editor of Celluloid and founder of Elite Digital AI Solutions Ltd, which owns CelluloidScore.com. An entrepreneur and cultural producer, he sets the site’s answer-first editorial standard and transparent four-input Celluloid Score.
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960 reviews published on Celluloid
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★★★★☆
Bang Woo-ri’s Netflix school romance — Kim Yoo-jung spies on a crush for her best friend, then falls — is the film that made Byeon a global search name before Lovely Runner.
Recommended comfort romance — nostalgia first, plot second.
★★★☆☆
Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Aishwarya Rai, and Fawad Khan in a Europe-hopping heartbreak musical — gorgeous, self-absorbed, and thinner than its playlist.
Mixed-to-yes if you want the songs; skip if you need the characters to be people.
★★★½☆
Kabir Khan turns a mute child’s journey home into Salman Khan’s most generous star vehicle — sentimental, politically blunt, and still the Hindi film people recommend to first-timers.
Worth watching for the heart and Nawazuddin’s mischief — not for subtle geopolitics.
★★★☆☆
Nelson Dilipkumar and Thalapathy Vijay in a terrorist-hostage spectacle — loud Kollywood fan service with a Celluloid Score that stays on the mixed side of Recommended.
For Vijay completists — the mall action is the movie; the plot is not.
★★★☆☆
Ayan Mukerji’s Hindu-fantasy origin story — Ranbir, Alia, Bachchan, and a Shah Rukh cameo — wants to be India’s MCU and often looks like a very expensive music video.
Mixed: VFX ambition and star cameos, not a coherent mythic drama.
★★★★☆
Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona, and IU on a baby-box road trip — Hirokazu Kore-eda in Korean, tender and a little too neat, with a Cannes-facing moral puzzle.
Recommended — gentle Kore-eda crime, not Shoplifters’ equal, still worth the ride.
★★★★½
Hidetoshi Nishijima and Tōko Miura in a red Saab — Uncle Vanya, a dead wife’s tapes, and the rare three-hour film that earns every silent kilometre. Cannes Best Screenplay, Oscar Best International Feature.
Essential — the 2020s Japanese film that made patience feel like plot.
★★★☆☆
Kabir Khan, Salman Khan, and Katrina Kaif in Dublin and Istanbul — RAW-agent charm as a travel brochure, and the film that made Tiger a franchise instead of a one-off.
Watchable franchise zero — romance over tradecraft, and the IMDb is hotter than the craft.
★★★½☆
Dharani’s Tamil mass entertainer still plays like a stadium chant — Vijay, Trisha, and Prakash Raj in the kabaddi romance every later Kollywood blockbuster is answering.
Essential Tamil mass cinema — start here if you want to understand Thalapathy Vijay before the LCU.
★★★★☆
Toshiro Mifune’s shoe executive faces a ransom for the wrong child — a two-act masterpiece that turns a living room into a moral cliff and then into a police procedural.
Essential — still one of the best films ever made about money, duty, and a city.
★★½☆☆
Sajid Khan’s Akshay Kumar farce — mistaken identities, stacked fiancées, Deepika in an early comic register — is loud Hindi holiday comedy with a Celluloid Score that stays Not Recommended.
Skip unless you already like this franchise’s slapstick — reception was mixed for a reason.
★★★★☆
Takashi Shimura’s dying bureaucrat tries to mean something — a playground, a stack of forms, and still one of the most moving films ever made about wasted time.
Essential — a humanist landmark, not a homework assignment.
★★★☆☆
Shakun Batra’s Coonoor reunion — Sidharth, Fawad, Alia, and Rishi Kapoor — is still one of Hindi cinema’s most adult takes on brothers, parents, and a secret the family cannot metabolize.
Recommended — among the better Hindi family dramas of the 2010s.
★★★★☆
Lee Young-ae plans thirteen years of retribution in the close of the Vengeance Trilogy — pastry, prison, and a moral geometry colder than Oldboy’s hallway.
Essential if you are walking the trilogy — a masterpiece of control, not of warmth.
★★★½☆
Lokesh Kanagaraj gives Vijay a dual-identity crime role with cafe-owner calm and hyena violence — stylish LCU mythology that is sharper in pieces than as a whole.
Worth watching for Vijay vs Sanjay Dutt and the interval craft — not as the tightest LCU entry.
★★★½☆
Lokesh Kanagaraj pits Thalapathy Vijay against Vijay Sethupathi in a juvenile-home crime saga — the theatrical event that kept Tamil mass cinema loud during the pandemic.
Strongly recommended for the star clash — baggy as a crime film, electric as an event.
★★★½☆
Thalapathy Vijay plays doctor and magician against a medical-corruption plot — Tamil mass cinema as public-health pamphlet, with A. R. Rahman on the soundtrack.
Recommended for Vijay/Atlee fans — political punch, uneven as drama.
★★★½☆
Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in a meta Bollywood ghost story — 1970s studio glamour, a fire, and a second life that is really about the industry’s own mythology.
Recommended as a Hindi-cinema pop object — joyous, overstuffed, and still Deepika’s calling card.
★★★½☆
Sukumar doubles down on Allu Arjun’s iconography in one of Indian cinema’s biggest openings — a vengeful empire sequel that asks for a full evening and still leaves plot on the cutting-room floor.
Watch if the first film’s swagger hooked you — skip if three-hour mass sequels drain you.
★★★½☆
Sukumar and Allu Arjun turn red-sandalwood smuggling into a pan-India catchphrase machine — uneven as crime drama, irresistible as star mythology.
Worth watching for Allu Arjun’s walk and Fahadh Faasil’s counterweight — not for narrative elegance.
★★★☆☆
Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda in a music-world romance — Suri’s old melodramatic toolkit with new faces, and a composite that stays on the mixed side of Recommended.
For romance-playlist viewers — not a leap forward for Hindi musical drama.
★★★★½
A makeshift Tokyo household survives on theft and odd jobs until a neglected girl makes their love visible — and therefore prosecutable. Gentle, devastating, unforgettable.
Essential — the Japanese film of the 2010s, and Kore-eda’s peak.
★★★½☆
R. S. Prasanna and Aamir Khan return to feel-good mentorship — basketball, a team of intellectually disabled players, and the ghost of Taare Zameen Par.
Warm, crowd-pleasing, and safer than the title’s namesake — recommended if you liked Dangal’s coaching arc.
★★★★☆
Min Yong-keun, Kim Da-mi, and Jeon So-nee — two women, decades of love and grievance, and Byeon Woo-seok as the man who is not the point.
Recommended — a Korean friendship drama with more bruise than its poster.