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...
Stardust(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Johnny Flynn , Jena Malone and Marc Maron Directed by Gabriel Range Rating: * ½ The worst disservice to a celebrity figure is...
The Answer(Amazon Prime) Starring Victor Bannerjee, Leonidas Gulaptis Directed by Pavan Kaul Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) “There is true kinship only with God,” says the film’s young protagonist...
Driveways(Amazon Prime) Starring Hong Chau, Lucas Jaye, and Brian Dennehy. Directed by Andrew Ahn Rating: **** ½ This understated masterpiece about reaching out and touching your neighbour’s hand is so...
Mangrove (Amazon Prime) Starring Letitia Wright as Altheia Jones-LeCointe,Malachi Kirby as Darcus Howe,Shaun Parkes as Frank Crichlow, Sam Spruell as Police Constable Frank Pulley Directed by Steve McQueen Rating: *** ½ Released as part of the ...
Soorarai Pottru(Tamil, Amazon Video With Hindi/English Subtitles) Starring Suriya, Paresh Rawal, and Aparna Balamurali Directed by Sudha Kongara Rating: **** Emotions run high when Maara(Suriya)runs out of money to pay for his business-class ticket to...
Chhalaang(Amazon Prime) Starring Rajkummar Rao ,Nushrratt Bharuccha, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Mr. Singh,Saurabh Shukla ,Ila Arun ,Satish Kaushik Directed by Hansal Mehta Rating: ** ½ The most complicated part of this languid film is the spelling of the heroine’s name. Otherwise...
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm(Amazon Prime) · Starring Sacha Baron Cohen,Maria Bakalova · Directed by Jason Woliner · Rating: ** To go back to the earlier film in the Borat series—Yaadon Ki Borat, we may call it—in 2006, actor-performer-comedian...