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Vijay Sethupathi’s Silences Speak To Us In Gandhi Talks

Rating: **** Our cinema is so verbose and over-saturated with dialogues that just the idea of a film that does away...

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Border 2, By far The Best Indian War Film Since Border

Rating: **** ½ When J P Dutta made the genre-defining Border in 1997, little did he know that 29 years later, the crossborder crisis...

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Rahu Ketu, Powered By Sanitized Laughs & Hazy Humour

Rating: *** Straight off, debutant writer-director Vipul Vig’s Rahu Ketu is likeable for its resolute avoidance of all vulgarity. In fact this is one...

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Kalamkaval : Mammootty Gets To Be Mean In An Ugly Story

Rating: ** ½ Kalamkaval in Malayalam, is a very showoffy project. Mammootty who has played nearly the entire spectrum of characters that a male...

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Girl Taken: A Potentially Powerful Abduction Tale Takes The Wrong Turn

Rating: ** ½ Don’t get me wrong. Girl Taken the new Paramount+ series in six episodes, packs in quite a punch. Based on...

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Taskaree, Custom Designed Karee Western

Rating: *** Neeraj Pandey’s Taskeree on Netflix is mildly addictive and wildly filmy in a very spaghetti Western sort of way. There are ...

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It Was Just An Accident, Overrated, Underwhelming

Rating: ** ½ Jafar Panahi, the controversial Iranian filmmaker, has to be right in whatever he does. He is , after all,...

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Laalo Shree Krishna Sada Sahayate: All Heart & Soul, No Artifice

Rating: **** There is not one insincere note struck in the length and breadth of director Ankit Sakhiya’s elegant pristine and guileless Laalo...

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Emily In Paris, The New Season Is Guilty Pleasure Reloaded

Rating: *** ½ By now everyone knows Emily Cooper, the American marketing executive in Paris who learns the ropes while pulling...

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Sentimental Value Is A Near-Masterpiece, But Homebound Is Better

Rating: **** The Norwegian Oscar entry Sentimental Value directed by Joachim Trier who co-wrote it with Eskil Vogt, is sure to reach the Top 5 nominations...

One Battle After Another Is Satirical Sexy Subversive But Not A Great Film

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One Battle After Another Is Satirical Sexy Subversive But Not A Great Film

Rating: *** Other than a rousing raunchy performance by Sean Penn as a power-revved pervert, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another left me...