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The New Indian Express is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Namrata Joshi, Udita Jhunjhunwala.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Irkalla: Gilgamesh's Dream (2025) Namrata Joshi No doubt censuring the adults for bringing things to such a pass for the children is necessary. But as we move along in the narrative, things begin to turn predictable and over the top in their sentimentality and messaging.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
We Shall Not Be Moved (2024) Namrata Joshi The powerful, intimate and sensitive film leaves the viewers with an overwhelming sense of anguished healing and poignant closure.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Special Unit - The First Murder (2025) Namrata Joshi It’s a fairly engaging, if predictable, mainstream crime film but also brings in a touch of social realism of Scandinavian crime thrillers...
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
A Useful Ghost (2025) Namrata Joshi A Useful Ghost stands out in the way Boonbunchachoke marks a gradual transition from the poetic and romantic to the larger grim, contentious issues confronting his nation and its history.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Familia (2024) Namrata Joshi Costabile crafts a fine film with characters and relationships that have depth and complexity.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Things You Kill (2025) Namrata Joshi The Things You Kill is an unhurried but riveting ride of a film, rich in subtexts and profundities and the many riddles, meanings and metaphors that Khatami leaves for the audience to plumb into and decipher.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Peacock (2024) Namrata Joshi Albert Schuch’s absurdist turn is the core strength of Peacock. You laugh at him and are moved by his character’s crises as well.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Happy Birthday (2025) Namrata Joshi The film is a straight and simple and often predictable narrative that points a finger at the audience...The sentimentality, however, gets balanced out by Goher’s empathetic touch and the incredible presence...
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Namrata Joshi Chan-wook’s dexterity and craft is in great display while marrying the sound and visuals to the off-kilter plot and seamlessly handling the tonal shifts and transitions.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Weightless (2025) Namrata Joshi While you can pre-empt and predict a lot that transpires on screen, it’s Thalund’s gentle, tender, sensitive and sympathetic handling of the adolescent confusions and turmoil that lends the film freshness and sparkle.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Amoeba (2025) Namrata Joshi It is a refreshingly astute and insightful exploration of a teenage girl’s inner transformation and personal assertiveness within the confines of a distinct and defined national and socio-cultural context.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Six Days in Spring (2025) Namrata Joshi A ‘slice of holiday’ film that ends up holding a mirror to life itself, its many inequities, injustices and incongruities.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
To the Victory! (2025) Namrata Joshi The rambling narrative mirrors the disorderliness in filmmaking in a country at war with itself. Despite the emotional crises, there are welcome bursts of humour as well like the filmmaker participating in a virtual meeting to procure grants for his film.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Eagles of the Republic (2025) Namrata Joshi Eagles of the Republic is a sturdy and enjoyable mainstream thriller. It might sport the right ideology at heart, but one that doesn’t cut deep enough.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Father (2025) Namrata Joshi Milan Ondrík as Michal internalises all these searing emotions and reflects them on his face, his body, his soul, his very being. It’s an intense interpretation of a harrowing reality and leaves one with goosebumps.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Mosquitoes (2025) Namrata Joshi The most distinctive aspect of the film is its unsentimental, no holds-barred world building. How it transports us to the summer of 1997...through the place and the people as seen through the eyes of the young girls.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) Namrata Joshi Marked by Miyake’s distinctive observational skills and compassion and warmth for the human condition, the narrative coasts along leisurely with rhythmic beats and elegant patterns, making for a most soulful, tactile piece of cinema.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
With Hasan in Gaza (2025) Namrata Joshi Aljafari calls it “an homage to Gaza and its people” and a film about “the catastrophe, and the poetry that resists”. That alone makes it worth a view despite the--perhaps deliberate--choppy, jagged narrative and the coarseness to the filmmaking.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
A Pale View of Hills (2025) Namrata Joshi The many ambiguities often make things irritatingly convoluted and the acting, other than from Hirose and Yoshida, is not layered enough to deliver on the emotions, intrigues and the complexities.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Renoir (2025) Namrata Joshi Hayakawa wins the day by casting the amazing Yui Suzuki as Fuki. She has just the perfect mix of the idiosyncratic and imaginative, innocent and vulnerable to make the inner struggles of the character strongly resonant.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Aisha Can't Fly Away (2025) Namrata Joshi Shot in the Ain Shams area of Cairo,...the film has a locational specificity, vibrancy and energy to it while reflecting its all-pervasive lawlessness and danger amid the milling crowds.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Sand City (2025) Namrata Joshi ...the intrepidly crafted, off-the-beaten-path film is an exciting, artistically audacious addition to the new wave Bangladeshi cinema. The most obvious bit of its ingenuity lies in the visual flair with which it frames Dhaka.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Dog on Trial (2024) Namrata Joshi At times too much seems to be happening on screen, the sense of chaos, in turn, also coming to inhabit the audience’s mind. A reason why the engagement with the goings-on on the screen stays inconsistent.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Dreams (2024) Namrata Joshi ...despite being dangerously wordy the film never gets annoying. There’s a lightness of touch and lovely play of words which has you invested in the dissection of feelings on screen.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Gas Station Attendant (2025) Namrata Joshi Purely as a documentary about family, it may not have the layers of Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell but it makes up for it with its straightforward honesty and emotional acuity.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Urchin (2025) Namrata Joshi [Urchin] doesn’t wallow in indigence. The serious social commentary is balanced by a fine thread of humour, like a ray of sunshine in the midst of the clouds.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) Namrata Joshi Cespedes’ narrative does get needlessly protracted and overtly didactic at points but he does manage to create a compelling universe thanks to the production design...and cinematography...
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Amrum (2025) Namrata Joshi [Fatih Akin] fashions a tender coming-of-age film that steers clear of the sappy and the showy and touches a chord with both a sense of loss for and hope in a child’s innocence.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
A Normal Family (2023) Namrata Joshi At its core A Normal Family questions parenting, society, justice while also asserting that normalcy is nothing more than an anomaly when it comes to families.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Wishing on a Star (2024) Namrata Joshi Far-fetched and fun? Yes, indeed, with some wonderful music to boot. But there’s also something philosophical at the film’s heart. Don’t they say that you have to travel away from home to find yourself? It’s precisely what Luciana is making people do.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Hesitation Wound (2023) Namrata Joshi Nacar crafts a taut and terse narrative that blends the unexpected twists and turns and engaging rhetoric of the legal trial with the suspense and intrigue of an investigative thriller...
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
In Camera (2023) Namrata Joshi Khalid spotlights the film business in the UK with a visibly inventive, irreverent, and independent sensibility that eschews the conventional form and modes of narration.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Last Dance (2024) Namrata Joshi ...[The Last Dance] is at its most potent as a high drama that throws a radical challenge at patriarchy and makes a case for gender equality and empowerment in the fittingly fiery finale.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Hard Truths (2024) Namrata Joshi Hard Truths makes for an endlessly hard watch with a seemingly unfluctuating screenplay (as static as Pansy’s own life) moving from one simmering encounter of hers to another.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Little Sister (2025) Namrata Joshi Unlike a lot of queer films about battling the prejudiced world out there, The Little Sister is not high on conflict and drama. It’s an ordinary slice of life film and an introspective character study...
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Namrata Joshi Ultimately, Un Poeta is a universal treatise on the world of arts and letters, in that it’s about the contradictions inherent in creativity in general in any corner of the world—the economic strife that runs parallel to artistic achievements.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Homebound (2025) Namrata Joshi Homebound gives voice to the voiceless but more significantly implicates and indicts the powerful and the privileged for the status quo. It's a film powered by vital, essential urgency of the times, and for the times.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Scrap (2022) Namrata Joshi There’s hope in this bittersweet film. That all won’t be lost, that the messed-up relations will resolve, the scraps and squabbles will lead to harmony, and happiness will come to prevail.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Perfect Neighbor (2025) Namrata Joshi The Perfect Neighbor is a reminder of how dangerous America can be, how cheap human lives can get and how easily they can be snuffed out.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) Namrata Joshi If the idea [of the film] was to underscore desire in older women, well it doesn’t even manage to scratch the surface and is content being facile than a fresh exploration.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Omaha (2025) Namrata Joshi Immensely moving yet never manipulative...
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Mistress Dispeller (2024) Namrata Joshi Mistress Dispeller is a bittersweet take on bittersweet feelings that is also a fascinating showcase of the familial, cultural and societal rules and rituals in China.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Shepherds (2024) Namrata Joshi Life in the mountains of rural France is far from idyllic and comes with its own stresses and anxieties. [Shepherds] underscores it with strikingly evocative imagery of the landscape that dwells on the contradictions inherent in nature...
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
U Are the Universe (2024) Namrata Joshi An incredible fantasy about love between a man and the voice of a woman. It is never sentimental but steadily turns affecting with the finale packing in a deeply poignant punch.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024) Namrata Joshi While being an emotional ride, it doesn’t feel overly manipulative. A lovely sense of restraint and tenderness runs through it. On the flip side, there’s little about the film’s plot that’s not predictable.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Land (2024) Namrata Joshi A self-reflexive film on the besieged homeland, in which the personal is the political, No Other Land is a vital, urgent documentation of the human toll of conflict and a searing critique of war crimes and violence, state atrocities and authoritarianism.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
A Different Man (2024) Namrata Joshi Schimberg quite pertinently situates body horror in showbiz. He uses a world that spins on appearances—cinema, advertising and off-Broadway stage—to pin down lookism—how we perceive ourselves and how others notice us based on the way we look.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
My Eternal Summer (2024) Namrata Joshi The soulful writing finds a matching rhythm in all aspects of filmmaking—be it the shot-taking and editing, the sound or production design. There is a languidness and lilt that suffuses the film.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Room Next Door (2024) Namrata Joshi ...The Room Next Door is perhaps [Pedro Almodovar’s] most inspirational film that talks about the power of positivity in the bleakest of times, of holding on to that one open window when all the doors appear to be getting closed.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Ma: Cry of Silence (2024) Namrata Joshi At its best MA-Cry of Silence is about the much-needed politicisation of the apolitical. The denouement, though real and plausible, does feel dispiriting and...it makes one wonder whether “we are coming out of the darkness or directly heading into it”.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
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