Kamran Jawaid, born April 29, 1982, is a film critic from Karachi, Pakistan known for his stylized film reviews. He is also a self-taught filmmaker. Considered one of Pakistan’s more cerebral and better known film critics, Jawaid's journalistic style often juggle a delicate balance between journalistic film essays and commercial reviews. Often his reviews deliberate on technical insights and large paragraphs emphasizing specific scenes with...
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Kamran Jawaid, born April 29, 1982, is a film critic from Karachi, Pakistan known for his stylized film reviews. He is also a self-taught filmmaker.
Considered one of Pakistan’s more cerebral and better known film critics, Jawaid's journalistic style often juggle a delicate balance between journalistic film essays and commercial reviews. Often his reviews deliberate on technical insights and large paragraphs emphasizing specific scenes within the movie, and not the story itself. Most of his smaller reviews go without revealing much of the film's story, except the pitch. Instead of an expanded synopsis, his reviews often deliberate over the director’s vision.
In his reviews he often quotes other film critics. His most quoted critics are A.O. Scott and Roger Ebert. He also cites A.O. Scott, Roger Ebert, David Edelstein, Elvis Mitchell, J.Hoberman and Mick LaSalle as major influences in his work.
Jawaid has a second opinion review section titled Animadversion, collaborated with Farheen Jawaid, and yearly Oscar Predictions for Images magazine.
Images is a weekly publication which runs every Sunday in Dawn Newspaper, Pakistan's leading English language daily, a publication of Pakistan Herald Group, a publishing giant from Pakistan.
Kamran Jawaid, also has experience in motion picture development in Hollywood. He is currently developing the motion picture The Axon Theory, an untitled documentary on Anime and Echo amongst other projects in Pakistan and United States.
