Lara Kirubakaran

Favorite films

  • Princess Mononoke
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Another Round
  • Raw

All
  • Yojimbo

    ★★★★★

  • Romancham

    ★★★★

  • Oppenheimer

    ★★★★½

  • Barbie

    ★★★½

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Yojimbo

1961

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Witty, darkly fun, and oh-so-Wild West, Yojimbo is peak Kurosawa. The humor, brutal swordplay, and the "You're not such a bad guy for a gruff bounty hunter" trope make this a riveting watch.

Romancham

2023

★★★★ Liked Watched

I can't believe this movie invented Ouija boards. Ridiculously funny and essentially a documentary on living in Bangalore.

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Monkey Man

2024

★★★½ Liked Watched

Self-indulgently violent grittiness, but just lucid enough to avoid falling onto the phylum of John Wick and Sin City, this was so much fun. With it's feverish pacing and raw depictions of a amateur protagonist who has the capacity to be dangerous but struggles to actualize it, it's a distant urban cousin of Dhanush's Asuran. Beautifully shot, neon-soaked, and the some of the most refreshing hyper-violence I've seen in a while, it's main fault is it's milquetoast take on the…

Sinners

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

fresh, authentically maximalist, and a masterclass in blocking and sound design.

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