Saturday, Oct 01, 2022
Journalism of Courage
Shalini Langer
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Don’t Worry Darling movie review: Olivia Wilde thriller goes nowhere with its promising premise
Don’t Worry Darling movie review: Olivia Wilde flounders in this much-anticipated second directorial venture.
Fri, Sep 30, 2022
Everything Everywhere All At Once movie review: You can’t have everything
Everything Everywhere All At Once movie review: The film makes it all worthwhile in the end, by having at its heart a much simpler tale of marital conflict, family discords and the bonds of love.
Fri, Sep 16, 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing movie review: Effective as a story about loneliness and love
Where the Crawdads Sing movie review: The film decides to cast its protagonist in an insistently considerate light which does the most injustice to the girl who has conquered a jungle.
Fri, Sep 16, 2022
Beast movie review: Idris Elba starrer fails to live up to its name
Beast movie review: Seldom has a survival story involved so much talk. Nothing is left unsaid, and unrepeated in the film.
Fri, Sep 02, 2022
What can one say to a three-year-old who died?
As long as that is the case, as long as Bilkis stands there asking questions, everything can change in the bat of an eyelid – for you, me, all of us.
Sun, Aug 28, 2022
Three Thousand Years of Longing movie review: George Miller at his best
George Miller is adept at whipping up fantastical worlds in Three Thousand Years of Longing, and keeping us entranced there. This saves the film when some of its enchantments veer towards bizzare caricatures of the mystical Orient.
Tue, Aug 30, 2022
Nope movie review: A remarkable addition to Jordan Peele’s genre
Nope movie review: The conceit of Nope is that, even if your life depended on it, can you look away from a spectacle? And what happens to those who are turned into spectacles?
Fri, Aug 19, 2022
Bullet Train movie review: Brad Pitt’s charm offensive in a lacklustre film
Bullet Train movie review: Aware of his charm, and playing it for laughs, Brad Pitt lightens the film every time he is on screen.
Thu, Aug 04, 2022
The Gray Man: A by-the-numbers, been there-done that film
Ryan Gosling might perhaps be the only thing good about The Gray Man, and that's because he brings that right amount of disinterest which makes his character, by the name of Sierra No. Six, interesting.
Sat, Jul 23, 2022
Shamshera movie review: This Ranbir Kapoor film is big, bad, loud and messy
Shamshera review: Ranbir Kapoor is efficiently good as Shamshera, a leader of a tribe first treated as outcastes and later betrayed and kept enslaved in a fort.
Sat, Jul 23, 2022
Kung Fu Panda The Dragon Knight review: Netflix show is flabby and sags
Kung Fu Panda The Dragon Knight movie review: The series fail to rise to its full potential and many of the dramatis personae, the great Shifu and the fab Furious Five, don’t even make an appearance.
Fri, Jul 15, 2022
Thor Love and Thunder review: Chris Hemsworth film strays far from Marvel, Thor
Thor Love and Thunder review: Taika Waititi gets away with a lot in the film because of Chris Hemsworth’s ridiculously easy charm, in that ridiculously easy-on-the-eye body.
Fri, Jul 08, 2022
Shalini Langer writes: How about a blog of the mother as, first, a person
Shalini Langer writes: If that didn’t have me thinking of motherhood and all that it comes endowed with, almost always by other people, came the US Supreme Court judgment telling women they had virtually no right to decide whether they wanted to bear a child or not.
Sun, Jun 26, 2022
Elvis movie review: Flashy, frenetic and flamboyant retelling of Presley, the persona
Elvis movie review: You won't be able to look away from star Austin Butler as he takes to the stage as the King of Rock and Roll, even though Baz Luhrmann's film is told from the perspective of Tom Hanks' character.
Sat, Jun 25, 2022
The Black Phone movie review: Nothing amounts to much in this film
The Black Phone movie review: A strangely arranged film by director Scott Derrickson, The Black Phone is almost graphic in the violence that children unleash on each other.
Fri, Jun 24, 2022
Downton Abbey A New Era movie review: No downturns here
Downton Abbey A New Era movie review: There are some minor traumas to be overcome; some desires to be tamped down; some unions to be made; some others to be only whispered about.
Sat, Jun 04, 2022
Top Gun Maverick review: Tom Cruise starrer aces the skies, burns the roads
Top Gun Maverick review: The film is riding on Tom Cruise's still nimble shoulders, that sparkly grin, and his charm burnished with years of stardom. However, there is a settling down too, a recognition of age, of passing years.
Sat, May 28, 2022
Dhaakad movie review: Kangana Ranaut, Divya Dutta do the heavy lifting in this slick action film
Dhaakad movie review: A slick action film that is also coherent – Kangana Ranaut-Divya Dutta-Arjun Rampal film is an achievement.
Sat, May 21, 2022
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 movie review: Tabu towers over everyone in this Kartik Aaryan-Kiara Advani retread
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 movie review: Don’t go expecting any light touches, or any hummable music like Part I in Kartik Aaryan-Kiara Advani film. There are repeated jokes at the expense of an overweight child and a hard-of-hearing pandit.
Sat, May 21, 2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness movie review: Really a multiverse of muchness, not amounting to much
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review: It may be the Multiverse of Madness (which it is), but it is above all the Multiverse of Marvel.
Sat, May 07, 2022
Memory movie review: Liam Neeson film astounds you with its laziness
Memory movie review: The film meanders in the middle, not knowing what to do with its actors, or its story of bad men and vulnerable immigrant girls.
Fri, Apr 29, 2022
Giving love a chance
Shalini Langer writes: Hate needs loud slogans, blaring songs and increasingly a bulldozer. Love needs no language.
Sun, Apr 24, 2022
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 movie review: Barely plods along
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 movie review: Twice the screaming and the blasting, half the need for any real plot development.
Fri, Apr 22, 2022
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent movie review: This Nicolas Cage film is burdened by the weight of its title
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent movie review: But for Nicolas Cage giving it all he has got, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent would collapse under its own pretensions.
Fri, Apr 22, 2022
A Hero movie review: Asghar Farhadi film is an intricate look at complex questions of life
A Hero movie review: A Hero is a story laid layer upon layer, an outer structure holding up the insides, the whole edifice vulnerable to one false step.
Fri, Apr 08, 2022