Amritpal Rai
Amritpal is a 2017 Penn State graduate with a B.A. in English Composition and was raised as a young kid watching movies to analyze and a free-flow of creative ideas. He loves to express himself creatively but he loves writing and talking about films and what makes them unique and impactful. Born in the 90s, Amritpal grew up with cinema through horror and action (his dad, god bless him, wasn’t the best parent when it came to what he could watch but he grew up real quick through horror and loves him for it), and like any movie lover, he was the “movie guy” in a friend group. Currently, he is getting back to his roots in writing about film and the awards space and hopes to expand his horizon and focus on a creative writing project he can express his ideas through.
Review: Primetime Showcases an Unruly Robert Pattinson Blurring the Lines of Reality TV
Review: 'Wild Horse Nine' is a Melancholic Hilarious Tale of Regret Elevated by a Career-Best Performance
Checking in on the Awards Race: Can Netflix Actually Seal the Deal, This Time?
Review: 'Romería' is a Transportive Plunge into Carla Simón’s Memories
Milestone 30th Annual Fantasia Festival Promises the Best of Global Genre Storytelling
250 Years of the United States Through Film
Review: 'Stand Up' is Beautiful, Resilient Coming of Age Drama
Review: 'A Mosquito in the Ear' is a Heartfelt Family Drama of Miscommunication
Six Unexpected Awards Contenders So Far in 2026
The Rolling Tape Previews the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival
2026 Cannes Film Festival Competition Awards Predictions
EP 197: Evil Dead Burn (2026) & 'Evil Dead' Franchise Retrospective
RETRO//RANKED: Christopher Nolan (9-10): Interstellar & Dunkirk
The Awards Tape: 78th Primetime Emmy Awards (2026) Final Nomination Predictions
RETRO//RANKED: Christopher Nolan (7-8): Inception & The Dark Knight Rises
The Awards Tape: Mid-Year Above the Line Oscar Predictions
EP 195: Supergirl (2026) & Blind Ranking DC Movies
The Awards Tape: State of the Best Animated Feature Race 2027 & Ranking All 25 Animated Oscar Winners
EP 194: Toy Story 5 (2026) & Ranking Every Pixar Movie
RETRO//RANKED: Christopher Nolan (3-4): Insomnia & Batman Begins
The Awards Tape: Disclosure Day Awards Assessment & Spielberg Awards Draft
RETRO//RECAP: Toy Story Franchise
The Awards Tape: Horror at the Oscars & Inde Navarrette Awards Consideration for Obsession
Possibly Bruce Campbell’s best performance in all three films. Ash is the immovable object in the unstoppable force of the Necronomicon and its powers, and Campbell is in true form…
Read on Letterboxd ↗“In a pantheon of masterpieces, no film from maestro Martin Scorsese has ever felt as painfully melancholic and nostalgically somber about the mysticism of America’s ethereal figures as The Irishman.…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Anna Farris and Regina Hall, innocent. They could read the phone book together as Cindy and Brenda and I’ll find a way to laugh because they’re so damn funny.We’re back…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Unironically, Jared Leto’s Skeletor is the most entertaining character, and it’s not even close.Remarkably boring and tedious to the point of inducing lethargy. There’s loads of charm surrounding the screen—sometimes…
Read on Letterboxd ↗A truly profound, achingly beautiful war film that allows you to sit, contemplate, and interrogate the images of war violence and the undertones of transcendentalism. Nature is an overarching guidance…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Road trip movies often have a rhythmic dance between the intimate and the claustrophobic nature of being confined in a hunk of metal on wheels. There’s a weighted tension of…
Read on Letterboxd ↗I thought I had seen the light once the credits for The Strangers: Chapter 3, Renny Harlin’s ill-conceived, awfully bad horror trilogy, began. It pummeled me within the span of…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Oscar nomination #11 for Best Actress I think it’s too easy to have a reductive view of a Lifetime-esque drama involving a parent dying of cancer. Especially when there’s an abundance…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Oscar nomination #9 for Best ActressIt’s hard to not be charmed by a Mike Nichols comedy drama that works as both satirizing the manicured Hollywood sheen of pleasantries and phony…
Read on Letterboxd ↗Oscar nomination #8 for Best Actress Despite Meryl’s black bob looking oddly out of the place, this is such a deeply unsettling court room drama of innocence clashing with media spectacle…
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