All posts tagged "featured"
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187Exclusive Premium ContentO’Romeo: Gore Bore
Rating: ** For all his outre swagger, Vishal Bhardwaj’s cinema has never really found its groove. The closest he came to finding...
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135Bollywood NewsBhabhiji Ghar Par Nahin Hain…The Worst ‘Comedy’ Of All Times
Rating: 0 stars To admit something could be worse than Mastii Bore, Sorry Four , takes some courage. I hereby gather all my courage ...
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171Exclusive Premium ContentDhandoraa: Powerful Potboiler With A Hammered Message On Casteism
Rating:** ½ Coincidentally I saw Vadh 2 , with a strong subtext on casteism, right before Dhandoraa, the strongly coded anti-caste film which took the...
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1.6KExclusive Premium ContentVadh 2, A Firstrate Thriller That Does A Drishyam With Panache
Rating: **** It is rare to come across a sequel that is better than the original, although Vadh 2 is not really a sequel ...
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194Exclusive Premium ContentDaldal, Bhumi-Aditya-Samara Anchor A Powerful Show
Rating: **** There is never a dull moment in Amazon’s Daldal . It is written with sharp curves and steep edges (by Sreekanth Agneeaswaran,Rohan D’Souza,Hussain Haidry,Priya...
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194Exclusive Premium ContentVijay 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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115Exclusive Premium ContentBorder 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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181Exclusive Premium ContentRahu 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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177Exclusive Premium ContentKalamkaval : 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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216Exclusive Premium ContentGirl 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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361Exclusive Premium ContentTaskaree, 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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177Exclusive Premium ContentIt 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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186Exclusive Premium ContentLaalo 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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388Exclusive Premium ContentEmily 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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205Exclusive Premium ContentSentimental 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...
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229Exclusive Premium ContentOne 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...