Take a long look at the poster. What do you think the movie will be about? A girl escaping a shark? You got that right. The entire movie is basically based on that. But wait, it's still NOT boring!
Blake Lively plays the only major character in the movie, and yet you do not get bored of watching only one character and don't even realize how less the dialogues are. Now, you won't want to watch this movie more than once, but that single watch will prove to be shockingly enjoyable. This could be because you don't expect this movie to be too exciting for this obvious story, but it keeps you on the edge of the seat always. You start praying for Blake Lively's survival, and find yourself devising plans for her escape. It's certainly a roller coaster ride, quite thrilling. The movie has also been shot really well. I, though, won't be able to watch this same movie a second time.

If you haven't watched this movie yet, the only excuse you're allowed to have is that you don't watch movies from the Marvel Cinematic universe, and hence won't understand this movie. This is true, but why aren't you watching movies from this majestic mind-blowing universe?
This movie is just grand. Following the events of Civil War, all our heroes appear in one grand movie to fight against the mighty Thanos, who plans on taking over the universe using the infinity stones, and conducts a scavenger hunt for the stones across planets. And let me tell you, Thanos certainly wins the 'Best Villain Ever' award. It's a sin to give out spoilers for this movie, so I'll let you agree with me yourself on watching the end of this movie.
It's an absolute delight to watch all the superheroes across different movies gang up with each other, especially the pairing of Iron Man and Doctor Strange, with Spider-Man and Star Lord tagging along. You keep getting rushes of excitement every time a new character is spoken about, or shows the others what their powers are, and you almost feel proud.
This movie gets and A+ in action, direction, visual effects, acting, and A+++++ in dialogues. Every single line is so quirky and funny and smart, you'll find yourself watching this movie again and again to keep discovering new things.
I know of many people who cried at the end of this movie. Not because the end is OH MY GOD, although it totally is, but because they need mopre of it right now, but have to wait for May'19 for part two.

After the huge amount of immediate conversation that The Kissing Booth arose, you will be wondering whether to give it a shot or not. I always keep one thing in mind : the better the movie is, the lesser noise it makes. I'm not saying that this isn't a nice movie, all I'm saying is that it's lame.
Elle and Lee are inseparable best friends, who, obviously, have been so since birth. hey have a set of rules they have abide by in their friendship, which they made back when they were kids, and hence half of them do not even make sense. In every close friendship, though, you do not need a an express rule to forbid the other from dating your immediate family member, it's a given. However, Elle finds herself falling for Noah, Lee's elder brother, bit by bit.
Lee and Elle set up a kissing booth at their school fair, and when Elle puts on the blindfold and stands at the booth, the hearth throb of the school Noah gives his brother's best friend her first kiss ever. Who he has known all his life and protects from bullies. Who he looks at, or at least used to, as a little sister. Who he passionately kisses even though he is aware of the rule, or even the general customs of society.
And there begins their forbidden love, which they hide from Lee and fight for the rest of the movie. Overall, it is a pretty cute movie, and you get very involved in the story and in the great chemistry between Elle and Noah (the fact that the actors are together in real life too certainly helped). Yet, parts where they take Lee from granted, or when lee acts very lame, or other such things about the movie will annoy you.

Will and Eden broke off their marriage after the tragic event of their son dying and them facing many psychological problems in dealing with it. Now, after two years of no contact, Eden and her new husband David come back from their 'communion', but more rightly called a cult, in Mexico, with two of their friends, and host a dinner party. They invite all their old friends, including Will, who haven't even heard from them in all these years, in order to reconnect. And believe me, this isn't a dinner party I would like to attend.
Will knows from the beginning of the evening that something is wrong, but cannot quite place his finger on it. And it's no big thing even recognizing that something is utterly wrong. You're extremely uneasy throughout the movie, because the behavior of the people is just way too awkward to take in. Eden and David try acting very spiritual and telling others how they're so happy now, but instead they come off as mysterious and just plain irritating, with them trying to be hospitable but certainly no one feels comfortable. Especially Will, who snoops around their belongings and even goes through their things on their laptop to look for something without knowing what he's really after. Their beliefs don't even make sense, nor are explained properly. And till the last 20 minutes of the movie, it's still really just a dinner party with something wrong waiting to happen, the whole thing honestly making me uncomfortable. The worst part of it was the game they play, their version of 'never have I ever', called 'I want'. It leads to some extremely weird confessions and sexual advances, and one guest even leaves at that point. Honestly, I don't know how the others didn't leave.
Psychological thrillers are supposed to send you into a thinking phase, make you want to find out more about the movie. I'm always excited to find out about hidden meanings and murders don't really disturb me. This movie, I just wanted to get done with. I only got through to find out what's actually wrong.

Lucy is a hard-working and smart lawyer, who works for the common good of the society. However, she ends up working for one of the people she despises, George Wade, a millionaire real estate developer, as his chief counsel. And obviously, they end up falling in love.
Now, I'm not going to mark that last part as a spoiler, because it's that obvious. You know from the minute that Lucy walks up to George that these two very different people are going to fall for each other. So, I guess, you're here to witnesses the hows and whys.
So you watch Lucy working very hard and George taking her advice on not only legal matters, but also what mattress to purchase. However, this movie does not show you the journey, from a professional relationship to prime adviser, which is why you don't even get to participate in their chemistry, it's like you're just informed that there is some.
The story is still pretty cute and you get to see them being dependent upon each other, even though it's not into details. You get excited to listen in on their conversations and always want to know more, even though individually, Lucy is an annoying workaholic and George is a playboy, together they form quite a couple.
For #RomCom lovers, this movie is certainly worth one watch.

Karina and Sanjay plan to go about backwards in their relationship - take the big, serious and defining steps first, and then think about actually getting into a relationship.
Their greed to own a house overpowers them, and for a while that's all that they can see, especially Sanjay. They have always dreamed about owning a home, and when they bump into each other, they do something you and probably won't.
This cute movie looks very romantic and cheesy from afar, but it's certainly not one of those ringe-worthy movies. Instead, it has light-hearted humour, unique characters and portrays different types of relationships - husband and wife with equal roles, single mother and daughter, in-laws, father son, restricted relationships, and so many more. You even start to dislike a lot of the characters, but you can't hold anything against them for long.
I might have liked the movie this much because after the trailer I wasn't expecting it to be good, neither did it make too much of noise. But I guess by now we can blindly trust movies with Vicky Kaushal, Ratna Pathak Shah, Supriya Pathak and even Angira Dhar.

Alex Strangelove, a straight A student and class president in a happy relationship finds himself in a situation he never expected himself to - coming to terms with his own sexuality. Movies like these are usually when a person knows who they are but is not ready to out themselves yet. This movie, though, is about Alex not knowing who he is and not being ready to come to terms with it. So yeah, from afar it might look like the usual scandalous high school story, but it is far from typical.
The characters of both Alex and Claire are both very cute and charming, and they seem to form the perfect couple. That's until the fact that they haven't slept together, moreover that it is a touchy topic for Alex. And you think that's what the movie is all going to be about and start getting bored when he meets openly gay Elliot at a party and he's forced to start facing facts.
This, however, is not a coming out movie, as I would again say. This is a movie about trying to get comfortable in your own skin and those around you helping you to do that.
However, a big negative point of this movie are the weird characters apart from Alex, Claire and Elliot. Delgado, Alex's best friend, is the most weird character, and also the rest of his friends. They even smuggle in an illegal frog to lick it and get high, and that part was completely over the top.
What the movie basically tries to do is not make the viewer feel alone, and I think that's a pretty sweet message been put through in an okayish manner.

Okay, so this movie has so many layers, it's going to be hard for me to deliver a review as good as the movie. Every body will take away something different from this brilliant movie, what the movie means to them. However, here, I will give you what I took away from the movie while watching it, which is pretty mortal, and what Darren Aronofsky actually tried to portray, which sets in after a little bit of thinking and reading.
The only location you see is the huge house, whose rooms you can't stop counting, and the grass and trees all around it, making you realize it is a remote house. None of the actors have names, but that did't get in the way of the movie once. Most of the screen time is mother, beautifully portrayed played by Jennifer Lawrence, so you start feeling like you are mother. you start feeling for her and with her. And soon enough, it felt like the entire world is pitched against you and mother, even though the first half of the movie does not have many characters. Even mother's husband, Him, starts looking suspicious for a crime that hasn't happened, but just for letting in a stranger man and his wife into their home, and allowing them to stay for as long as needed. Mother's husband sure grows fond of them, but you and mother both keep feeling uneasy about it, and rightly so, as that's where it all starts.
While watching the movie, one thought didn't leave my mind: either I'm insane, or everybody else is. Mother's husband is a creator, a poet, and his need for people to read his work unimaginably exceeds his need to write for himself, in such an unhealthy way He craves for followers, for worshipers, and gives them whatever they want, forgetting that mother is the one who built this house and gave him everything she could, eventually even a baby. It talks about desire to another extent, and He does not love mother as much as he loves how much she loves him.
However, this does not explain the beginning and the end of the movie, and this is where the references come in. The entire movie refers God, with Him being the Lord, and mother being Mother Nature. Let that sink in.... and then I would suggest you to head over to YouTube to learn more about the Biblical references, because it is a lot to think about. It leaves you with a very heavy message in a very subtle manner: you there, watching the movie, are the antagonist, and not any character you watch on screen. You are invading into this world what Mother Nature lovingly built for you, and keep using her for it, forgetting who really owns it.
Before you start getting bored of me trying to convince you to watch this movie, proceed over to watch this movie, and think about what you took away.

Welcome to the creepy town of Derry, where the children are carved with knives by bullies I hope don't really exist in real life, people keep going missing and are written off as dead without much of an investigation, the parents like keeping their children locked up or look at them as preys, and where the clown Pennywise returns after every 27 years and feeds on children.
The little brother of Bill, George, gets lured into the sewers by Pennywise in the beginning of the movie, and Bill is found clinging onto the hope of George still being alive, but neglected by parents. Soon after that, during the summer break, Bill and his group find themselves in the trail of the missing children and Pennywise, who feeds on these children, not realizing what they're getting themselves into. However, Ben, who the gang saves from Hower and the bullies, has conveniently done a lot of research upon the topic: of children been disappearing for centuries in Derry. Beverly and Mike also join hands with the group and start off on a mission to shoo Pennywise away from their town.
Now , I apologetically haven't read the book by Stephen King the movie is based on, so I'm going to take the liberty to talk about the plot of the film independently. Some things are either way too convenient- like new little Ben taking just a few visits to the library to figure out what's wrong with this town, or way too bizarre- like the kids actually committing murders. The town does not seem to have normal people looking after the children or a stable government or police looking after their citizens. The kids fail fighting their inner demons while on the hunt for Pennywise- which certainly looks like the clown has a spell on the entire town, because there's not other explanation for people acting that disturbing. Also, the plot is a little hard to follow, taking time to understand what actually is happening, but the story is already moving on by then.
However, this isn't like the other horrors, and hence certainly worth a watch. All of the ever increasing gang of kids have acted pretty well, especially Beverly. And the movie does not deal with the usually supernatural stuff. It deals with the curse of a shape shifting creature, violent bullies, abusive parents and inner darkness. Although, I must say, all the good things about the movie seem like the work of Stephen King and not actually a movie made well.
Get ready to chant things like "We all float here", which don't make much sense until you give it a hard thought.

Warning: I'm not a big fan of the Conjuring universe. No, that does not mean I can't watch horror. I love good different horror movie, and this universe just does not give that.
Okay, though the whole shifting into new haunted house gimmick is now stereotypical, Conjuring is one of the movies that made it stereotypical, the original, so it gets a pass. However, all the other movies that follow are way too predictable, including this one.
This movie gives you the background story of the creepy Annabelle doll that appears in the movies - about how the already evil-looking doll came to be possessed. Years after the young daughter of the Mullins passes away in a car accident, they open their house and allow an orphanage of a few girls and a nun to shift in. And of course, a small anti-social handicapped girl wanted to go wandering around the house late at night into a usually locked door and out of bounds area... because all little girls do that, right?
And that's when the spirit inside Annabelle is set lose. The first half of the movie is literally just all this that I just mentioned, nothing happening, one just waiting for Annabelle to predictably unleash herself, and nothing else.
The second half is where the actual horror, in my opinion, starts, and you actually get to see the creepy doll exercise its powers. However, then too, you know when they're going to try to frighten you, and you find yourself prepared for what's about to ponce at you, reducing the scare.
Also, though I know most movies use this tactic, it's always very dark when the scaring is happening, because of which half the visual details are missed and you go by sound.
All in all, it's not a bad movie, and certainly a good movie to start off with horror for people who are not horror movie buffs like me. Or even a good movie for a sleepover. Yet, for those who watch a horror flick now and then, you'll be found forcing yourself to sit through this movie because you've gotten so far in the series anyway, but will have an absolute absence of excitement.