MOVIE REVIEWS
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“When, in spite of all the good fortune that had come his way, he wasn’t…
“Can we put ourselves in the place of others?” So begins Nathalie Chazeaux’ (Isabelle Huppert) opening…
In 1939, in Sutton Hoo in rural Suffolk, a widowed landowner, Edith Pretty, invited an…
Sudhanshu Saria‘s psychological drama portrays the darker side of human insecurities with a tragic real world…
This is such a powerful and evocative title for a movie. It conjures up disturbing…
First Reformed. Is this a film? Or a peek into our many insanities, our dark…
Oliver Parker’s The Importance of Being Earnest is a faithful adaptation, wonderfully bringing alive Oscar Wilde’s…
While making Chungking Express, Wong Kar-wai showed absolutely no remorse for the flag-bearers of the…
Premised around the life of ‘The Kargil Girl’ Gunjan Saxena, this eponymous film is a…
What could possibly be the level of dysfunction of a world in which people leave…
Riveting, gripping, and distinctly local in flavor, Raat Akeli Hai follows the classic ‘one murder,…
Shakuntala Devi is an emotional, bittersweet ride, at times operatic but mostly spirited; one that…
The Cold-War period (1947-1991) between America and the USSR has been heavily documented in various media over the years. It…
One of the coolest, stand-out films of the 90s, The Usual Suspects remains just as powerful…
Cities have been explored as a muse both in literature and cinema. In the latter, the…
