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Critic - No.167 Director: Jordan Peele Casts: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker Language: English Genre: Horror / Thriller SYNOPSIS:  A family's holiday plan turns chaos when a group of doppelgängers begins to terrorize them. REVIEW: “We are Americans ” – the most terrifying line in the film that Jordan uses to reiterate his socio-political symbols in ' US' after an impressive debut with ‘ Get Out ’ that strikingly placed his argument on race and class. ‘ US ’ might not be as genre defying as ‘ Get Ou t’ but certainly throws more ideas on us. After the credits, the film opens up with young Adelaide enjoying the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk with her parents in 1986. While her father is distracted, she wanders off and ends up in a house of mirrors. The power winks off, and she finds herself standing next to what looks like her own reflection or actually...that is the hook! The credit sequence that foll...

Critic - No.166 Director: Magizh Thirumeni Casts:  Arun Vijay, Vidya Pradeep, Tanya Hope, Yogi Babu, ‘FEFSI’ Vijayan Language: Tamil Genre: Crime / Thriller Music: Arun Raj SYNOPSIS: The murder of a young girl creates great confusion among the cops when they find out that the suspect found has a look-alike. REVIEW: Magizh Thirumeni has a good track record, be it his first breezy but low-key romantic flick, ‘ Mundhinam Paartheney ’, his breakthrough action flick, ‘ Thadayara Thaaka ’ or his latest thriller ‘ Megamaan’ . He has progressively established his strength for writing thrillers and ‘ Thadam’, for me is his best in structuring suspense. From the first romantic track with the lead, Magizh buys our attention with his unique staging of flirting. From early in the story, we are introduced about the look alike, Kavin and Ezhil. The suspense is then effectively built after a murder.  The investigation scenes are well crafted and I particularly liked...