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An Action Hero
(2022)
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Tanul Thakur
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The Ayushmann Khurrana starrer doesn’t spare anyone, including – and especially – the Indian public and media’s confused, helpless, and toxic relationship with stardom.
Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Bhediya
(2022)
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Tanul Thakur
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Neither scary nor consistently funny...
Posted Nov 29, 2022
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Bunty Aur Babli 2
(2021)
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Tanul Thakur
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The first had some political consciousness, the second has none.
Posted Jan 03, 2022
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Antim: The Final Truth
(2021)
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Tanul Thakur
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The whole enterprise can be summarized in six words: characters bleat, bullets dance, bodies fall.
Posted Dec 06, 2021
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Sardar Udham
(2021)
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Tanul Thakur
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Vicky Kaushal turns in a nuanced performance in tune with the film's script.
Posted Oct 19, 2021
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Thalaivii
(2021)
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Tanul Thakur
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Such stark disconnect between audio and video elicits unique exasperation: of watching two bad films at the same time.
Posted Sep 14, 2021
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Bellbottom
(2021)
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Tanul Thakur
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When Bell Bottom wasn't shrill or disgusting about its deshbhakti, I felt relieved.
Posted Aug 24, 2021
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Ahaan
(2021)
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Tanul Thakur
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Nikhil Pherwani's debut film dignifies an unacknowledged dream.
Posted Jun 02, 2021
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Ajeeb Daastaans
(2021)
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Tanul Thakur
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It's an assured performance that distils the thrills and expectations of new-found love - and does so through memorable specificities. It makes perfect sense: Every love story has its own language. Love is, after all, a linguistic detail...
Posted Apr 20, 2021
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Pagglait
(2021)
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Tanul Thakur
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Pagglait understands the baffling paradoxes of Indian families, where death can be more revealing than life.
Posted Mar 29, 2021
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AK vs AK
(2020)
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Tanul Thakur
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Despite some pleasant accomplishments, a meta film needs to be recognised for its essence: that it is an act of self-absorption - and so, the weight of that vanity becomes as important as the film itself...
Posted Mar 10, 2021
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A Thin Wall
(2015)
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Namrata Joshi
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A Thin Wall has accounts of lives being saved. But it also contains memories of people walking for miles daily, leaving behind graves at every halt, the fear-filled existence in a time of moral vacuum.
Posted Sep 22, 2020
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Milestone
(2020)
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Namrata Joshi
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Meel Patthar focuses on the travails of the working class in an industry that literally drives the economy but has rarely sparked the imagination of filmmakers for a gritty exploration.
Posted Sep 22, 2020
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Under the Open Sky
(2020)
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Namrata Joshi
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Under the Open Sky eschews the subtlety of Koreeda for a sentimental approach, meandering at times, but the lead actor Koji Yakusho holds it together by becoming one with the character of the yakuza.
Posted Sep 18, 2020
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Apples
(2020)
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Namrata Joshi
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What is genuine is the evocation of loss and a deep sense of anguish.
Posted Sep 18, 2020
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One Night in Miami
(2020)
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Namrata Joshi
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King's film is a perfect fit for TIFF, in that it exemplifies the values of gender parity and racial equality that the festival has consciously tried to underline through its programming without giving short shrift to artistic merit.
Posted Sep 18, 2020
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The Way I See It
(2020)
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Namrata Joshi
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Most of all, The Way I See It seeks to ask questions like how should the job of the US president be approached and what should the leader of the nation be like?
Posted Sep 18, 2020
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The Boy From Medellín
(2020)
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Namrata Joshi
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The vulnerability and responsibility of a celebrity finds a musical expression in Matthew Heineman's The Boy from Medellin...
Posted Sep 18, 2020
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76 Days
(2020)
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Poulomi Das
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76 Days is an astonishing documentary that chronicles the stoic heroism of exhausted patients, nurses, and doctors in the frontlines of the deadly COVID-19 crisis in Wuhan, the ground zero of its outbreak.
Posted Sep 17, 2020
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Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai
(2020)
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Tanul Thakur
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The film is marked by a baffling listlessness, a foreign trait in an Anurag Kashyap production. For a thriller, Choked's plot plods. Its dialogues are pedestrian. The characters' desires lack the sting that makes them magnetic
Posted Jul 13, 2020
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Eeb Allay Ooo!
(2019)
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Tanul Thakur
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Eeb Allay Ooo! cares, lifting the migrant from the trappings of political abstractions, dignifying his fight and making him a person.
Posted Jul 13, 2020
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