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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.
Founder & Editor, Celluloid · Elite Digital AI Solutions Ltd
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960 reviews published on Celluloid
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★★★★½
Rajamouli's conclusion delivered record-breaking spectacle and cemented pan-Indian event filmmaking.
Strongly recommended — a defining title from its era.
★★★★☆
Kleber Mendonça Filho's Bacurau (2019) endures as a defining action landmark from Brazil, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale (2000) endures as a defining thriller landmark from Japan, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Strongly recommended — a staple of its national cinema.
★★★★½
Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus (1959) endures as a defining romance landmark from Brazil, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Strongly recommended — a staple of its national cinema.
★★★★½
Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) endures as a defining romance landmark from France, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Strongly recommended — a staple of its national cinema.
★★★★½
Lee Chang-dong's Burning (2018) endures as a defining drama landmark from South Korea, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name (2017) endures as a defining romance landmark from Italy, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Martin Campbell's Casino Royale (2006) endures as a defining action landmark from United Kingdom, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Daniel Monzón's Cell 211 (2009) endures as a defining thriller landmark from Spain, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Walter Salles's Central Station (1998) endures as a defining drama landmark from Brazil, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★☆
Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach's Chicken for Linda! turns a mother's quest to cook a chicken for her grieving daughter into a riotous, hand-painted farce — a bold, colour-coded French animation that hides real sorrow beneath the chaos.
A vibrant, wildly original animated comedy with a tender heart — brief, boisterous and quietly moving. A gem for grown-ups and children alike.
★★★★★
Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988) endures as a defining drama landmark from Italy, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★★
Fernando Meirelles's City of God (2002) endures as a defining crime landmark from Brazil, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★☆
Paulo Morelli's City of Men (2007) endures as a defining drama landmark from Brazil, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Strongly recommended — a staple of its national cinema.
★★½☆☆
Homi Adajania’s Sicily-to-India love-triangle sequel looks expensive and moves slowly — Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon, and Rashmika Mandanna work harder than the script. Celluloid Score stays Not Recommended.
Franchise curiosity only. Beautiful locations cannot rescue a love triangle that restates Cocktail (2012) without the original’s messy charm.
★★★★½
Lee Unkrich's Coco (2017) endures as a defining animation landmark from Mexico, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) endures as a defining action landmark from China, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Aamir Khan anchors an inspiring true story that became one of the highest-grossing Indian films worldwide.
Strongly recommended — a defining title from its era.
★★★★½
Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (1981) endures as a defining war landmark from Germany, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★☆
Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave (2022) endures as a defining romance landmark from South Korea, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
The longest-running theatrical romance in Indian history — DDLJ defined a generation of Bollywood love stories.
Essential viewing — among the finest films in Indian cinema.
★★★★☆
Steven Spielberg trades spectacle for institutional dread in a first-contact thriller that watches humanity's certainties dissolve — the master of upward-gazing wonder now more interested in the faces looking back down.
Late-period Spielberg in restrained, paranoid mode — less awe than unease, and all the more haunting for it. Highly recommended.
★★★★☆
Can Evrenol's Distant (2023) endures as a defining sci-fi landmark from Turkey, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Strongly recommended — a staple of its national cinema.
★★★★½
Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (2004) endures as a defining war landmark from Germany, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.