MOVIE REVIEWS
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If there’s one Indian director whose films seem straight out of a novel, it has to…
Whodunit mysteries can be tricky; the reveal to the big build up may not always…
The challenge with films that tell real-life stories (of public figures) is that the audience…
If you’re following Vijay Sethupathi’s meteoric rise in Tamil film industry, you know the brands…
A disquieting vignette of a society, Pink holds a mirror to everything that’s wrong with us.…
This is not a man’s world. It’s a world where women are in charge. Welcome…
From the opening song and credits, Baar Baar Dekho looks like the stuff perfect love…
Directed by Rick Famuyiwa, HBO’s Confirmation (2016) shows us everything that’s wrong with the power-hungry…
Raam Reddy’s excellent debut feature Thithi is a rare Indian film. There’s great interest in…
In an industry swarmed with lacklustre content, Abhishek Chaubey’s Udta Punjab shines with an edgy…
Midway into Karthik Subburaj’s fantastic Iraivi (Goddess, 2015), there comes a familiar slow motion shot,…
Money Monster is big-ticket Hollywood’s most recent attempt at uncovering narratives from within the high-stakes…
Fate brings together strangers Shiv Kumar (Naseeruddin Shah) and Tara Deshpande (Kalki Koechlin) when their…
Noted critic Roger Ebert’s words “Movies are like a machine that generates empathy” resonate strongly…