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Border 2
(2026)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Ugh.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Lynne Ramsay wants you, the viewer, to get down in the grass on all fours with Grace, to jump into a pool at a kid’s birthday party, to run headfirst through a glass door, and then arrive at your own conclusions.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Josh Safdie is very obviously not interested in preaching a lesson on morality. He only wants you to have fun, your adrenaline jacked up, like in a haunted house caught in the middle of a tornado.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos
(2026)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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This is almost a good film. I laud the naked ambition to be a Naked Gun, and hope there is more where this came from.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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A constant bombardment of danger leaves little breathing room. Everything feels perilous all the time, which makes for intense viewing, but also breeds so much exhaustion.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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Christmas Karma
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Sauceless.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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Dhurandhar
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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You best believe something nefarious is afoot when the film chooses to end with: "Yeh naya Hindustan hai. Yeh ghar mein ghusega bhi, aur maarega bhi."
Posted Dec 07, 2025
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Johnson attempts to rationalise faith to whatever extent is possible.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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Bison
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Mari Selvaraj tries to take his film where the audience is. He wants to show people a side of life in India that moviegoers don’t usually see in flashy cinema. So he presents it in a visual language most people understand.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Jazz musician Nala Sinephro’s soundtrack beautifully enhances the contradictions between Mark’s inner and outer worlds.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Has little to no narrative grip. Performances from lead actors Janhavi Kapoor and Varun Dhawan fail to grasp your fancy. The most I cared about was Rohit Saraf because that beard looks great.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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As the film expands in scale, its narrative structure rapidly goes haywire. Too many short stories and subplots are piled on top of each other in quick succession, and the screenplay sways further and further away from the film’s philosophy.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Kaouther Ben Hania wants you to bear witness. The horror of the day, of this very evening, is so immense that her camera doesn’t even need to visit the site of the murders for us to fully comprehend it.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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Palestine 36
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Palestine 36 announces itself as an act of reckoning and a reminder of the need to steadfastly place blame where it belongs. Annemarie Jacir writes and directs with clarity of purpose, supported by a powerful cast.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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I liked, hated, and loved this film.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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Nishaanchi
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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More than anything, Nishaanchi wants the viewer to feel its texture....Refreshingly, characters in this film do not get radicalised or thrown into action when a sister, mother or wife is assaulted/murdered. Nishaanchi is original, if not the most unusual.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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PTA’s writing explores the contradictions of what it means to exist as a complete human being with a set of beliefs.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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Bayaan
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Once a structure is established and the conflict made clear, Bayaan stumbles into predictability.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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Param Sundari
(2025)
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The lack of dramatic tension in Param Sundari is unfortunately not offset by dazzling dialogue or spectacular acting performances.
Posted Sep 01, 2025
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The Roses
(2025)
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A highly engaging, clever little film that, despite its familiar premise, manages to stay a step ahead of the viewer, keeping things interesting.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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Coolie
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Coolie adds little to culture and conversation, working largely only to encourage idolization.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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War 2
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Aside from the joy of watching two very famous actors share screen space, there is nothing new on offer here.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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Son of Sardaar 2
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Hilarious premises give way to outdated melodrama.
Posted Aug 04, 2025
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Dhadak 2
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Almost a manifesto that hopefully will take Mari Selvaraj’s original story to a larger, Hindi-speaking audience.
Posted Aug 04, 2025
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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By the end, the laughs did become laborious.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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Sinners
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Any film about legacy and oppression that shapeshifts, about art as rebellion, will always be universal.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Fictionalises too freely, sermonises too often, side-stepping one trap, while falling into another.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Jewel Thief - The Heist Begins
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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A spectacular display of how wonderfully things can go wrong despite having some of the best actors available to elevate all written material.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Thunderbolts has its wins, even if it doesn’t quite reinvent the wheel.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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It’s incredibly satisfying to know that a major movie star is willing to go this far to cater to your excitement, constantly raising the bar with insane, death-defying stunts just to win your attention.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Homebound
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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For a non-Indian viewer unfamiliar with the outlawed yet widely practised caste system in India, Homebound might come across as a series of revelations about a country that's primarily only known in International cinema circles for song and dance.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Stolen
(2023)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Stolen is a study of a new kind of angry young man in India, with directionless anger. Like a firecracker that’s gone off in the wrong direction, the film is interested in people beginning to implode on their way to burning the whole system down.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Under ALL that is going on, thoughts aren't allowed to linger – neither on screen, nor in your mind. Everything is too distracting to be absorbed coherently, unfortunately.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Thug Life
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Thug Life seems allergic to world-building.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Housefull 5
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Not just women, multiple communities are up for ridicule in this equal opportunity offender.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Materialists
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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New York resident Celine Song wants to remind her viewers, via women who hold centre stage, that people and cities only make sense if you stay malleable and allow yourselves to experience them, with as much open-mindedness as your station in life allows.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Detective Sherdil
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Diljit shows as much interest in bringing Sherdil to life as he has in promoting the film, which is to say, none at all.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Sitaare Zameen Par
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Sitaare Zameen Par exists largely for one reason- to tell a largely Hindi-speaking Indian audience what Down Syndrome is, what it means to be on the spectrum, and that we need to be better human beings.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Largely, Matt Shakman, as he did with the Wanda Vision series, stays focused on the value of family, and everything a woman is capable of doing to keep it together, including going over to the dark side if needed.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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2/10
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Saiyaara
(2025)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Saiyaara is so eager to drive its tragedy home that, throughout its run time, every single moment is high-intensity drama that gives way to more melodrama without allowing the viewer to settle into any feeling for longer than 10 seconds.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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Gulmohar
(2023)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Gulmohar could have easily turned into a mother-son saga, where a star of Manoj’s stature would have had the lens focused on him more than others, but his presence doesn’t take away from the emotion this film wants to bathe you in…
Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Liger -- Saala Crossbreed
(2022)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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I am jealous of everyone who hasn't had to watch Liger this week.
Posted Aug 26, 2022
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Rashtra Kavach OM
(2022)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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There are bad Ahmed Khan movies, and then there there are bad movie Ahmed Khan enables. Rashtra Kavach Om is a shining example of the latter.
Posted Jul 01, 2022
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The Great Indian Kitchen
(2021)
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Sucharita Tyagi
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Jeo Baby hasn't given any of his characters any names. He also ensures that till the end of the film, you won't realize you don't know these peoples' names. Because you know these people.
Posted Aug 17, 2021
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