Another Round(Danish,Amazon Prime Video) Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Rating: ** This very rumbustious film is described as a “celebration of alcohol”....
Chop Shop(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Alejandro Polanco ,Isamar Gonzales Directed by Ramin Bahrani Rating: **** ½ Long before The White Tiger which has opened worldwide to rave reviews and will stream from 22...
Waiting For The Barbarians(Amazon Prime) Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, and Greta Scacchi. Directed by Ciro Guerra Rating: *** ½ Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s Waiting for The Barbarians is one ...
Monsoon(Amazon Prime) Starring Henry Golding as Kit,Parker Sawyers as Lewis,David Tran as Lee Directed by Hong Khao Rating: ** In no time at all, Henry Golding of Crazy...
The Nest(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, Oona Roche, Adeel Akhtar Directed by Sean Durkin Rating: *** ½ Social climbers are normally a brunt of loud...
Some of the biggest names from Bollywood are all set to descend on your computers, phones and television screens this month. Here are the biggies waiting their turn....
The Assistant(Amazon Prime Video) Directed by Kitty Green Rating: **** Just days before I was left dazed by this sparkling gem—or maybe sparkling is not quite...
Let Them All Talk(Amazon Prime) Starring Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, Candice Bergen, Lucas Hedges, and Gemma Chan. Directed by Steven Soderberg Rating: ** ½ Two Meryl Streep releases within a month! What have...
Sylvie’s Love(Amazon Prime Video) Sylvie’s Love Starring Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha Rating: *** There is a kind of clemency criticism at work in the evaluation of certain...
Red White & Blue(Amazon Prime Video) Starring John Boyega, Steve Toussaint Written & Directed Steve McQueen Rating: *** ½ Steve McQueen’s fine ‘Small Axe’ series recreating the horrors...
Alex Wheatle(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Sheyi Cole, Robbie Gee Written & Directed by Steve McQueen Rating: ** ½ One of the rather intriguing quirks of Steve McQueen’s very fine...
A lot of what followed after Advantage Covid on the OTT platform was plain garbage. There were sparks of excellence all through the year. Here’s my pick of the best...
With Durgamati(previously entitled Durgavati, though it makes no difference trash by any other name stinks just as much, to paraphrase Shakespeare) and Torbaaz scraping the bottom of the creative barrel...
Raj-DK , as the duo likes to be called , have now made a short film entitled Glitch which will be part of the omnibus Unpaused to be released...
Unpaused(Amazon Prime Video) Directed by Raj-DK, Nikkhil Advani, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Avinash Arun Dhaware, Nitya Mehra Rating: ****There is an awkward moment between the classy Lilette Dubey and her young unlikely Covid companion when the former….there’s no polite way of putting...
I’m Your Woman(Amazon Prime) Starring Rachel Brosnahan,Arinzé Kene,Marsha Stephanie Blake,Bill Heck,Frankie Faison Directed by Julia Hart Rating: *** ½ The last sentence of dialogue in this superbly crafted thriller with...