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Kaiser Khan is the founder of Celluloid and its parent company, Elite Digital. An entrepreneur and cultural producer whose work spans international entertainment and live events, he leads Celluloid's editorial direction and oversees the transparent, five-source Celluloid Score.
Founder, Celluloid & Elite Digital · Entrepreneur & cultural producer
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244 reviews published on Celluloid
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★★★★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.
★★★★½
José Padilha's Elite Squad (2007) endures as a defining action landmark from Brazil, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Worth watching for context — influential even where opinions split.
★★★★☆
Alper Mestçi's Siccîn (2014) endures as a defining horror landmark from Turkey, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Strongly recommended — a staple of its national cinema.
★★★★½
Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) endures as a defining family landmark from United States, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.
Essential viewing — a certified classic.
★★★★½
Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine (1993) 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.