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Black Phone 2 movie review: A starved-for-scares horror film
October 31, 2025 18:20 IST
Black Phone 2 movie review: If Black Phone (2021) still had a brother-sister relationship to cling to during its dire passages, Black Phone 2 has nothing.
Fri, Oct 31, 2025
Bugonia movie review: A gripping take on the modern fault lines animating America
October 31, 2025 14:28 IST
Bugonia movie review: Emma Stone is very, very good, as is Jesse Plemons. Neither of which is a surprise. Nor is it a surprise that Lanthimos, in this remake of a Korean film, wants to not just stimulate you but bedazzle.
Fri, Oct 31, 2025
A House of Dynamite movie review: Kathryn Bigelow’s apocalyptic political thriller fizzles out
October 30, 2025 21:41 IST
A House of Dynamite movie review: As the dire scenario repeats from different angles, some of the tension that Kathryn Bigelow builds dissipates.
Thu, Oct 30, 2025
Ballad of a Small Player movie review: A gorgeous gamble that doesn’t quite pay off
October 30, 2025 19:59 IST
Ballad of a Small Player review: Ballad of a Small Player is beautiful to gaze at, drawing comparisons to the look and feel of a Wong Kar Wai film, in its framing of Macau in light and shadow, fire and water, big, splashy casinos and dripping, crowded settlements.
Thu, Oct 30, 2025
Good Fortune movie review: A tepid tale
October 17, 2025 18:17 IST
Good Fortune review: Good Fortune, starring Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, and Keanu Reeves, among others, goes round and round in circles without saying much that is new.
Fri, Oct 17, 2025
A Nice Boy movie review: Warmly acted and wonderfully nuanced
October 17, 2025 17:52 IST
A Nice Boy movie review: Warmly acted and wonderfully nuanced, A Nice Boy wants us to look at all that seems 'familiar' – and look again.
Fri, Oct 17, 2025
The accessible imperfection of Diane KeatonSubscriber Only
October 14, 2025 08:00 IST
If her self-assured, distinctive strength marked Keaton, so did her encompassing warmth. No one could look into her smiling eyes and not find a grin forming along one’s lips
Tue, Oct 14, 2025
Dance as my revolutionSubscriber Only
October 12, 2025 06:50 IST
The thing is, no one is really looking to judge. But even if my saner mind knows that, what do I do about my stubborn feet? Or my dreams, in which I am somehow smashing a dance floor?
Sun, Oct 12, 2025
The Smashing Machine movie review: Dwayne Johnson gives it his all in Benny Safdie film
October 10, 2025 17:45 IST
The Smashing Machine review: Dwayne Johnson gives it his all, from every sinew of his sculpted body to going unrecognisable under prosthetics, for the role of Kerr – his best in a long career of playing either action stars or low-key comedy ones.
Fri, Oct 10, 2025
Caught Stealing movie review: Darren Aronofsky film has more bark than bite
October 10, 2025 17:34 IST
Caught Stealing movie review: Caught Stealing needed to be much funnier than it is, have much more of the Jew brothers than it does, use Kravitz better than it criminally decides not to, and cut back on lingering shots of the cat and obsessive references to baseball.
Fri, Oct 10, 2025
Steve movie review: Cillian Murphy film is a hit and miss
October 03, 2025 17:52 IST
Steve movie review: Cillian Murphy is in a class of his own as the troubled, tormented Steve – a role he has made his own.
Fri, Oct 03, 2025
The Strangers Chapter 2 movie review: Madelaine Petsch film fails to escape its own loopsSubscriber Only
September 26, 2025 18:36 IST
The Strangers Chapter 2 movie review: In the middle, there is an attack by a wild hog. Sad to say but that’s about the only time things get exciting.
Fri, Sep 26, 2025
One Battle After Another movie review: Paul Thomas Anderson film is as timely as it is tragicSubscriber Only
September 26, 2025 18:04 IST
One Battle After Another movie review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s vision is unsparing, for both sides in this apparently eternal face-off between the rebels and the system — even as life carries on, unironically.
Sat, Sep 27, 2025
The Ba***ds of Bollywood: What makes Aryan Khan laugh?Subscriber Only
September 22, 2025 12:36 IST
In his directorial debut, nothing’s off-limits -- nepo babies, MeToo, media trials and SRK's legacy
Thu, Sep 25, 2025
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey movie review: Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell film is insipid, meanderingSubscriber Only
September 19, 2025 18:03 IST
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey movie review: Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell film aims to tie it all up neatly with the curious logic that rather than 'being happy', one should 'try and be content'. Not big, bold, beautiful, or even a romance, is it?
Fri, Sep 19, 2025
The Toxic Avenger movie review: Peter Dinklage shines in gory yet self-aware rebootSubscriber Only
September 19, 2025 16:34 IST
The Toxic Avenger movie review: At the end of the day, the reason for this film’s revival is as gratuitous as its graphic violence – a chain reaction to superhero hits.
Fri, Sep 19, 2025
The Long Walk movie review: The Francis Lawrence is brutal and unnervingly timelySubscriber Only
September 12, 2025 20:13 IST
The Long Walk movie review: While the violence is graphic and the shots to the head unsparing, it’s what these youths talk about that helps them, and us, keep going.
Fri, Sep 12, 2025
Downton Abbey The Grand Finale movie review: A good way to say goodbyeSubscriber Only
September 12, 2025 17:33 IST
Downton Abbey The Grand Finale movie review: What The Grand Finale gets right is in framing the inevitability of change, be it in the passing of Maggie Smith, who was the queen empress of the Downton Abbey once, or in the retirements of old helps at the castle.
Fri, Sep 12, 2025
The Conjuring Last Rites Movie Review: With no real jump scares, horror franchise deserved a better send-offSubscriber Only
September 05, 2025 18:39 IST
The Conjuring Last Rites Movie Review & Rating: There is too much happening to too many people to make any sort of a coherent narrative, so much so that the demon-fighting itself is crunched.
Fri, Sep 05, 2025
Baaghi 4 Movie Review: Tiger Shroff bleeds, Sanjay Dutt snarls, you flinchSubscriber Only
September 05, 2025 15:11 IST
Baaghi 4 Movie Review and Rating: One star to Tiger Shroff film for surprising us every time we think Ronny surely has butchered enough, or when you think Sanjay Dutt can’t be doing his maniacal laugh one more time.
Fri, Sep 05, 2025
The Roses movie review: Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch can’t save this tepid filmSubscriber Only
August 29, 2025 14:47 IST
The Roses film review: Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch don’t really set the screen on fire – though The Roses would have you believe otherwise.
Fri, Aug 29, 2025
Relay movie review: Riz Ahmed deserves a better filmSubscriber Only
August 22, 2025 19:08 IST
Relay movie review: For all his professionalism, Riz Ahmed's Ash comes off as pretty juvenile. Lily James' Sarah, for a brilliant scientist, can’t figure out that keeping blinds closed may be one way of throwing stalkers off scent.
Fri, Aug 22, 2025
Bring Her Back movie review: Sally Hawkins shines in taut filmSubscriber Only
August 22, 2025 17:39 IST
Bring Her Back movie review: The beauty of Bring Her Back and Sally Hawkins is that even when you think you know Laura, you don’t know her.
Fri, Aug 22, 2025
The Naked Gun movie review: Liam Neeson shoots for laughs, hits just enoughSubscriber Only
August 01, 2025 16:38 IST
The Naked Gun movie review: Fans of The Naked Gun will go back happy, and those missing the kind of crude, unsanitized humour that it revels in, would be gratified to see Liam Neeson lending his weight to it.
Wed, Sep 03, 2025
The Bad Guys 2 movie review: A breezy, entertaining sequelSubscriber Only
August 01, 2025 14:32 IST
The Bad Guys 2 review: The Bad Guys 2, featuring the voices of Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Awkwafina, Zazie Beetz, ensures audiences across ages will be entertained.
Fri, Aug 01, 2025Journalism of Courage
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