About Author: Faizan Rashid

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A veteran Dubai based film critic, Faizan has been reviewing movies for nearly a decade. His work has been published in local newspapers such as 7days and on prestigious online websites such as MSN Arabia and wearethemovies.com

Posts by Faizan Rashid

  • Wall-E is perfectly believable, perfectly entertaining and a perfectly unique film.

    Wall-E

    Wall-E is perfectly believable, perfectly entertaining and a perfectly unique film.

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  • Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men is a rare film; it is almost perfect. Grim, critical of the present and yet somehow hopeful, it is a meditation on the implications and consequences of scientific advances that feels like a cross breed of 12 Monkeys and Brazil. It is easy to classify the film as science fiction – it is set in 2027 after all – but the chronology of the film becomes less relevant as it progresses. This could be the state of our Earth a year from now. The visceral, almost virtuoso filmmaking style of Mexican Cuaron gives the film […]

    Children of Men

    Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men is a rare film; it is almost perfect. Grim, critical of the present and yet somehow hopeful, it is a meditation on the implications and consequences of scientific advances that feels like a cross breed of 12 Monkeys and Brazil. It is easy to classify the film as science fiction – it is set in 2027 after all – but the chronology of the film becomes less relevant as it progresses. This could be the state of our Earth a year from now. The visceral, almost virtuoso filmmaking style of Mexican Cuaron gives the film […]

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  • Amongst astute film lovers, a Terrence Malick film ignites about the same amount of interest as a rare solar eclipse. Widely hailed as the J. D. Salinger of the American film world (and rightly so), this reclusive, visual genius has concocted some of the most mythic and resonant films about love and death with a mastery for framing indelible, precise images where landscapes, never people, dominate the screen. By those accounts, The New World is at once both a quintessential Malick film and a rare cinematic episode. It is as unique an experience as his The Thin Red Line or […]

    The New World

    Amongst astute film lovers, a Terrence Malick film ignites about the same amount of interest as a rare solar eclipse. Widely hailed as the J. D. Salinger of the American film world (and rightly so), this reclusive, visual genius has concocted some of the most mythic and resonant films about love and death with a mastery for framing indelible, precise images where landscapes, never people, dominate the screen. By those accounts, The New World is at once both a quintessential Malick film and a rare cinematic episode. It is as unique an experience as his The Thin Red Line or […]

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  • After the exposition comes the real fun.

    Spiderman 2

    After the exposition comes the real fun.

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  • Peter Jackson's visualization of Tolkien's magical world comes to a conclusion in the most rousing and memorable of ways.

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    Peter Jackson's visualization of Tolkien's magical world comes to a conclusion in the most rousing and memorable of ways.

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  • A true family film, Nemo is one of the few movies that rightly balances sentiment with wit.

    Finding Nemo

    A true family film, Nemo is one of the few movies that rightly balances sentiment with wit.

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  • Bryan Singer returns 3 years after the original with an even more potent, fun and exciting look at what Professor X and his team of mutants are up to.

    X-Men 2

    Bryan Singer returns 3 years after the original with an even more potent, fun and exciting look at what Professor X and his team of mutants are up to.

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