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Avatar Fire and Ash movie review: James Cameron builds his world on a familiar template
December 19, 2025 15:04 IST
Avatar Fire and Ash movie review: The one person who single handedly shakes that equanimity, enlivening Fire and Ash, is a villain with sex, spice and all things vice.
Fri, Dec 19, 2025
Sholay again: Dharam is dead, long live Veeru, marna cancelSign In to read
December 13, 2025 07:45 IST
‘Sholay’ remains astonishing for the technical quality of its production. In the restoration, every distinguishing nuance of that amazing soundtrack hit afresh
Sat, Dec 13, 2025
Christmas Karma movie review: Gurinder Chadha, Kunal Nayyar film is a Christmas catastrophe
December 12, 2025 16:52 IST
Christmas Karma movie review: The Big Bang Theory fame Kunal Nayyar is horribly miscast as the person needing lessons in getting into the spirit of Christmas.
Fri, Dec 12, 2025
Jay Kelly movie review: George Clooney and Adam Sandler deliver the goods
December 05, 2025 19:11 IST
Jay Kelly movie review: While Noah Baumbach is showing us the world behind the silver screen, the chaos and the confusion of it, and particularly what fame can make one oblivious to, Jay Kelly is enjoyable.
Fri, Dec 05, 2025
Dhurandhar movie review: Ranveer Singh’s ambitious spy thriller works only in flashes
December 05, 2025 16:06 IST
Dhurandhar movie review: Despite the many, many characters Dhurandhar introduces to give us a sense of Lyari’s power, crime, political and family dynamics, the plot is fairly comprehensible.
Fri, Dec 05, 2025
Eternity movie review: A rare A24 Films misfire
November 28, 2025 16:47 IST
Eternity movie review: You can see the ending coming a long way off, even if the film wants you to ponder – briefly – about “love that has not been tested by loss” versus “youthful love”.
Fri, Nov 28, 2025
Zootopia 2 movie review: Zootopia sequel has bark but also bite
November 28, 2025 15:42 IST
Zootopia 2 movie review: The “lessons” at the heart of this film are perhaps too on the nose. But that is not necessarily bad for a film that is meant for children.
Fri, Nov 28, 2025
Sisu Road to Revenge movie review: A gripping, hyper-violent tale of vengeance
November 21, 2025 17:58 IST
Sisu Road to Revenge movie review: Sisu Road to Revenge is a tale of vengeance, with no blood or battered bodies or shattered heads spared.
Fri, Nov 21, 2025
Wicked For Good movie review: An impressive exploration of goodness and wickedness
November 21, 2025 17:30 IST
Wicked For Good movie review: Ariana Grande is more assured this time and Cynthia Erivo, who carried the first film, matures wonderfully as a person who has all her life been misunderstood.
Fri, Nov 21, 2025
Nuremberg movie review: Russell Crowe is riveting as Hitler’s No. 2 Hermann Göring
November 07, 2025 17:47 IST
Nuremberg movie review: Written for the screen and directed by James Vanderbilt, once known for Zodiac and most recently for Scream, Nuremberg is burdened by the past, informed by the present, and not wholly committed to either.
Fri, Nov 07, 2025
Predator Badlands review: Elle Fanning shines in taut film
November 07, 2025 13:28 IST
Predator Badlands review: Elle Fanning, in her two varied roles as Thia and Tessa, shoulders well the responsibility to nudge Badlands towards better times — even as her sawed legs carry the film jauntily over the finishing line.
Fri, Nov 07, 2025
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 loops
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 tragic
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, 2025Journalism of Courage
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