Tumbbad (2018) Review: Heady Whirlwind Of Greed, Gore, Horror
Set during the British Raj and divided into four chapters, the central premise of Tumbbad ...
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The Year Of Spectacular Men (2017) Review: A Disjointed Tale
The Year of Spectacular Men is the directorial debut of Lea Thompson, featuring both her ...
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Lust Stories (2018) Review: Genre-Defying Cinema
It’s hard not to associate ‘lust’ with ‘sex’ when you think Hindi cinema. Films that ...
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Bunkar (2018) Review: Heartwarming Attempt To Rekindle Past Glory
Bunkar: The Last of the Varanasi Weavers (2018) aims to narrate the travails of a dying ...
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Manmarziyan (2018) Review
A modern-day romance-musical set in the bylanes of Punjab, Manmarziyan, like all Anurag Kashyap films, is ...
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Stree (2018) Review: Riveting, Refreshing Horror Comedy
Like all unusual, inexplicable ghost stories we’ve grown up watching, here too we’re served with ...
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Parched (2016) Review: Feminist Daring At Its Best
Three women in a parched land. Feisty, fulsome, intrepid, they dream of freedom. And sexual ...
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Like Father (2018) Review: A Formulaic, Unoriginal Comedy
The problem with trying to be creative is that it’s easy to turn to tried-and-tested ...
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The Endless (2018): Remarkably Eerie Exploration Of The Unknowns
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s horror thriller The Endless opens with a H.P. Lovecraft quote: ...
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Our Souls At Night (2017): A Heartwarming, Fulfilling Romance
Rarely does a film’s title elucidate the meaning behind the plot, and when a film ...
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Ghost Stories (2018): Smartly-Staged Horror With Campy Value
The portmanteau (anthology) horror films of the 60s and 70s from Britain-based Amicus and Hammer ...
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Raman Raghav 2.0: Delves Into The Subterranean Of The Soul
With Raman Raghav 2.0, Anurag Kashyap is back and how! A dystopian study of two amoral, ...
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Insidious (2010): Tastefully Crafted, Suspense-Driven Horror
Despite brimming with classic horror movie devices, James Wan’s Insidious continues to attract considerably more attention ...
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My Friend Dahmer (2017): Subtle, Engrossing Portrait of a Budding Sociopath
Jeffrey Dahmer in Marc Meyers’ My Friend Dahmer (2017) is a mid 1970s teenager, going ...
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The Breadwinner (2017) Review: Timeless Tale Of Survival, Self-Empowerment
The Breadwinner is both universal and deeply personal, about the healing power of stories and countless ...
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