Yasmin Omar

London

Film Critic at Freelance

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"Lyssna på era hyresgäster, Kfast!"

1 week ago | ekuriren.se | Mohamed Hassan |Yasmin Omar

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Sister Midnight

Mar 14, 2025 | empireonline.com | Yasmin Omar

Thrust into an arranged marriage with the man who was once her childhood sweetheart (Ashok Pathak), Uma (Radhika Apte) struggles to acclimatise to her new role as a wife. Original Title:Sister MidnightThe look on Uma’s (Radhika Apte) face, as she raises her wedding veil to glimpse the noisy, litter-strewn city she will now call home, is one of abject horror.
Best Movie Musical Sequences

Aug 28, 2024 | curzon.com | Yasmin Omar

Musicals are constantly falling in and out of favour. One minute, we’re praising their sunny, Technicolor optimism; the next, we’re bemoaning their lacquered falsity. Those of us who love the genre consider them pure, unfiltered escapism – a chance to inhabit a joyful, larger-than-life world where emotions are so intense they simply must be sung.
Blink Twice Review: Zoë Kravitz’s Extremely Online Thriller

Aug 19, 2024 | curzon.com | Yasmin Omar

In her spoiler-free review, Yasmin Omar digs into the actress-turned-director’s immaculately designed ‘eat the rich’ movie, which is deeply indebted to social-media trends. At the London premiere of her directorial debut, Blink Twice, Zoë Kravitz took to the stage and, incongruously, said she’d keep her introduction ‘very demure, very cutesy, very mindful’.
Sky Peals

Aug 11, 2024 | empireonline.com | Yasmin Omar

When his father dies suddenly, a solitary British-Pakistani fast-food worker (Faraz Ayub) is left to figure out his own identity. No-one understands the laconic, downtrodden Umer (Faraz Ayub). The manager at the motorway-skimming burger joint where he works somehow misinterprets his chronic shyness as extroversion, promoting him to the unwanted position of store greeter. His colleagues mistake him, a years-long employee, for a new starter because he’s so unassuming.
'Imparts an important message with considerable style'

Jul 31, 2024 | empireonline.com | Yasmin Omar

A shipwrecked boy (Aaron MacGregor) struggles to survive by himself on a remote Pacific island — until he encounters a prickly resident (Ken Watanabe). Michael, the child (voiced by Aaron MacGregor) at the centre of British animated adventure Kensuke’s Kingdom, has a ruinous obsession with his dog.
Twisters Review: The Dumb Fun Summer Blockbuster We Need

Jul 15, 2024 | curzon.com | Yasmin Omar

Glen Powell proves his leading-man chops as an arrogant storm chaser in Lee Isaac Chung’s entertaining, silly spectacle, where bricks cascade, hay bales fly and cars aquaplane. By Yasmin Omar Another summer, another legacy sequel. This time, Minari’s Oscar-nominated director Lee Isaac Chung has signed on to reboot the 1996 disaster movie Twister, a move that prompted much the same eyebrow-raised bafflement as Greta Gerwig’s decision to make Barbie (2023).
Kinds of Kindness Review: A Twisted, Troubling Triptych

Jun 24, 2024 | curzon.com | Yasmin Omar

In his signature dark, disorienting style, Yorgos Lanthimos delivers a star-studded, three-part drama that delves into the disturbing dynamics of abusive relationships, writes Yasmin Omar. Hope is in short supply in the bleak, warped worlds of Yorgos Lanthimos. For him, a happy ending is a steak knife to the eye. His latest, the Cannes-winning Kinds of Kindness, is a typically unsettling triptych beset by a creeping sense of dread.
The Power of Memory in Pixar Movies

Jun 4, 2024 | curzon.com | Yasmin Omar

The most heartbreaking sequences in the animation studio’s filmography tend to revisit the characters’ painful pasts to pave the way for their emotional catharses, writes Yasmin Omar. We all remember when we first saw it. A young couple, starry-eyed with possibility, lying on a picnic blanket under a perfectly blue sky pointing out shapes in the fluffy clouds. The young couple slotting coins into their big glass travel-fund jar and envisioning their jet-setting future.
The Beast Review: Léa Seydoux Shows Off Her Range in Heady Sci-Fi Romance

May 28, 2024 | curzon.com | Yasmin Omar

Bertrand Bonello’s ambitious time- and genre-hopping film offers yet another opportunity for the actress to demonstrate her versatility, writes Yasmin Omar. You never know what you’re going to get when you sit down to watch a Léa Seydoux film. She could be a tattoo-sleeved pothead, a sexually reawakened widow or a gun-toting assassin. She could be a misbehaving nun, a mentally unstable news anchor or a disfigured performance artist.