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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
Paolo Genovese's Perfect Strangers (2016) endures as a defining comedy landmark from Italy, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Strongly recommended — a staple of its national cinema.
★★★★☆
Kunle Afolayan's Phone Swap (2012) endures as a defining comedy landmark from Nigeria, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Strongly recommended — a staple of its national cinema.
★★★★½
Héctor Babenco's Pixote (1980) 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.
★★★★½
Hirani turns satire into mass entertainment without losing his signature warmth.
Strongly recommended — a defining title from its era.
★★★★½
Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) endures as a defining romance landmark from France, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke (1997) endures as a defining animation landmark from Japan, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★★
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) endures as a defining crime landmark from United States, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Kangana Ranaut's breakout turns heartbreak into liberation with wit, charm, and genuine surprise.
Essential viewing — among the finest films in Indian cinema.
★★★★½
Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern (1991) endures as a defining drama landmark from China, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985) endures as a defining action landmark from Japan, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) endures as a defining crime landmark from Japan, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★½☆
Togan Gökbakar's Recep Ivedik (2008) endures as a defining comedy landmark from Turkey, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Worth watching for context — influential even where opinions split.
★★★★☆
John Woo's Red Cliff (2008) 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
Alfonso Cuarón's Roma (2018) endures as a defining drama landmark from Mexico, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Rajamouli's blockbuster became a global phenomenon and redefined scale for Indian cinema.
Essential viewing — among the finest films in Indian cinema.
★★★★½
Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run (1998) endures as a defining action landmark from Germany, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★☆
Shahana Goswami anchors this tense police drama with a quietly seething performance, as Sandhya Suri uses a small-town murder case to expose the caste and gender fault lines running through the system.
Essential viewing — among the finest films in Indian cinema.
★★★★★
Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) endures as a defining action landmark from Japan, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004) endures as a defining comedy landmark from United Kingdom, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
India's definitive masala western — endlessly quoted, remade in spirit, never surpassed.
Essential viewing — among the finest films in Indian cinema.
★★★★½
Cary Joji Fukunaga's Sin Nombre (2009) endures as a defining crime landmark from Mexico, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★½☆
Karan Kandhari's feature debut swerves from deadpan marital comedy into feral horror without ever losing its nerve, powered by Radhika Apte's fearless, ferocious lead turn.
Essential viewing — among the finest films in Indian cinema.
★★★★½
Sam Mendes's Skyfall (2012) 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.
★★★★★
Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2001) endures as a defining animation landmark from Japan, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.