MOVIE REVIEWS
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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. Rustically local in flavour. These are a few words that come to mind…
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…
The Usual Suspects was one of the standout films of nineties, as well as one…
Cities have been explored as a muse both in literature and cinema. In the latter, the…
From playing boy-next-door to embodying larger-than-life onscreen characters, Ranveer has scaled dizzying heights in a…
‘Badi haveliyon mein bade raaz hote hain’, says Binodini when she dresses up the fiery…
Over the course of the past decade, Indian cinema has indelibly morphed into a novel beast. Despite still being distinguishable, the line separating ‘mainstream’ from…
The Darbhanga-born filmmaker has carved a niche for himself in contemporary Bollywood since he first…
There aren’t many actors who have trudged their way through Bollywood’s ranks and achieved mainstream…
