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Palm Springs movie review: An effortlessly charming, hearteningly warm film
September 24, 2021 15:57 IST
Palm Springs movie review: Andy Samberg and Cristian Milioti are both such funny, likeable people that there can’t be two better souls you want to root for.
Fri, Sep 24, 2021
Free Guy review: Ryan Reynolds film is so much more than a gaming film
September 17, 2021 19:04 IST
Free Guy movie review: The Ryan Reynolds film throws up important questions but doesn't allow the weight of these matters to drag it down, skipping lightly over them.
Sat, Sep 18, 2021
Old movie review: Cliche characters, questionable calls mar this M Night Shyamalan film
September 17, 2021 16:24 IST
Old movie review: By the time the film comes around to its point, takes a pause and almost becomes beautiful, it is too little, too late.
Fri, Sep 17, 2021
The Croods A New Age review: Too many good ideas jostle for space in crowded movieSign In to read
September 10, 2021 18:06 IST
The Croods A New Age movie review: Everything is just a riot of neon colours — as much a pain to the eyes as the resultant loud encounters are to the ears.
Sat, Sep 11, 2021
Gunpowder Milkshake review: Karen Gillan, Lena Headey film is foamy, frothy
September 10, 2021 15:01 IST
Gunpowder Milkshake review: It’s a movie by the numbers, of things you have seen before, bathed in colours you have been dazzled by earlier, a plot that makes less and less sense as one goes along.
Sat, Sep 11, 2021
Black Widow movie review: Scarlett Johansson-starrer is an inconsistent film
September 03, 2021 19:09 IST
Black Widow movie review: In the effort to both find space in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and expand it, director Cate Shortland ends up stretching affairs well past a painful two hours.
Sat, Sep 04, 2021
Cinderella review: Camilla Cabello film’s biggest failure is its lack of ambitionSign In to read
September 03, 2021 15:41 IST
Cinderella movie review: The film wants its characters leaping, but not high enough so as to break through its pink taffeta-and-glass slipper ceiling. It doesn't even want anyone raising their voice high enough to cause a crack.
Sat, Sep 04, 2021
The Green Knight review: A film of our times
August 27, 2021 18:49 IST
The Green Knight movie review: With a bevy of impressive performers and a landscape of bleak, striking beauty, David Lowery takes his time unfolding the journey of Gawain.
Sat, Aug 28, 2021
Reminiscence movie review: Hugh Jackman, Thandiwe Newton are wasted in dystopian drama
August 27, 2021 14:26 IST
Reminiscence is about two war-battered veterans — a going-through-the-motions Jackman and a completely wasted Newton — who are making a living by helping people relive the memories they want.
Fri, Aug 27, 2021
Nine Perfect Strangers review: Nicole Kidman is the biggest disappointment of this series
August 20, 2021 14:15 IST
Nine Perfect Strangers review: Amazon Prime’s Nine Perfect Strangers is building up to be a mystery that may have spent too much time on the setting than the people who inhabit it.
Sat, Aug 21, 2021
Nobody movie review: Bob Odenkirk takes on the Russians in fun action thriller
August 13, 2021 15:38 IST
Nobody movie review: Bob Odenkirk is an improvement on the traditional white American hero, a nobody who can be the everyman the film hopes he is taken to be.
Fri, Aug 13, 2021
Promising Young Woman movie review: Two halves of this gender politics drama don’t fit togetherSign In to read
August 06, 2021 19:10 IST
Promising Young Woman movie review: This Carrey Mulligan satire on gender politics seems to know the questions to ask but doesn't have the language for them.
Fri, Aug 06, 2021
The Suicide Squad movie review: Politics of this DC film packs a punchSign In to read
August 05, 2021 18:26 IST
The Suicide Squad movie review: James Gunn realises that the craziest thing aren't the freaks fighting the battle on the screen, it is the government pulling the strings from behind, going forth into worlds it has no idea about.
Fri, Aug 06, 2021
English, Vinglish: What if nothing held our mothers back?Subscriber Only
July 25, 2021 03:45 IST
Shalini Langer writes: Despite the halo built around them, or perhaps because of it, mothers of my mother’s generation were perhaps the easiest to overlook as people in their own rights.
Sun, Jul 25, 2021
After all this, will our kids be the same?Subscriber Only
May 30, 2021 03:49 IST
Is it too wrong to presume that when all this is over — if all this is over — the kids who emerge from homes will not be the same we herded in?
Sun, May 30, 2021
The Woman in the Window movie review: Best to draw the curtains on this flat thrillerSign In to read
May 14, 2021 19:39 IST
The Woman in the Window review: The Amy Adams, Julianne Moore starrer wastes the promise offered by its many interesting characters and stretches its twists far beyond the point of tension.
Fri, May 14, 2021
The Mauritanian movie review: A powerful drama that brings home the horrors of GuantanamoSign In to read
April 09, 2021 19:36 IST
The Mauritanian movie review: The Mauritanian is a grim reminder, at a time when the US is long past its Bush-Obama binary, that the Guantanamo facility still stands despite promises to shut it.
Fri, Apr 09, 2021
Minari movie review: An experience difficult to forgetSign In to read
April 08, 2021 19:58 IST
Minari review: This Oscar nominee is unique in many ways – in its perspective of an Asian family finding its roots in rural America and its piquant observation on the ways of the West and children.
Fri, Apr 09, 2021
Nomadland review: The other side of the American dream
April 02, 2021 18:51 IST
Nomadland is now streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar: The film's biggest accomplishment is putting a woman at the centre of this voyage of the self, relieving herself in the open, revealing herself in the open, driving her own destiny.
Fri, Apr 30, 2021
What is the worth of a woman’s household work?Subscriber Only
March 28, 2021 02:18 IST
There is actually just one word that would suffice for all of us. The right for women to say “no” — not clean up, put clothes in, take them out, monitor the pantry, plan the menu, watch the children, and do this keeping to everyone’s schedule.
Sun, Mar 28, 2021
The Courier movie review: An intimate portrayal of spies and secrets during the Cold War
March 19, 2021 15:57 IST
The Courier movie review: Watch this film for the story of Penkovsky and Wynne who went into history not knowing they had saved a disaster, and performances of Merab Ninidze and Benedict Cumberbatch who play them.
Fri, Mar 19, 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah movie review: A film about here and now
March 05, 2021 19:15 IST
Judas and the Black Messiah movie review: There are no greys in this film that hits the cinemas at the time of Black Lives Matter. It's about choosing sides and ‘heightening the contradictions’.
Fri, Mar 05, 2021
‘Bad’ girls leave everyone very, very uncomfortableSubscriber Only
February 28, 2021 04:52 IST
For, laden with the burden of “good”, their wants whittled into “shape”, girls are not allowed to be “bad” in small, everyday, casual ways — seeking friends over family, lovers over husbands, phones over cooking, and yes, casual sex in the fields over the cows munching nearby.
Sun, Feb 28, 2021
Let’s not be crybabies: the eyes have itSubscriber Only
February 14, 2021 03:50 IST
Whatever that moment in Parliament might or might not have meant, for a few very long minutes, a nation and its MPs stood still, as PM Modi struggled through several muffled sobs and breaks for sips of water, before a drop seeped out.
Sun, Feb 14, 2021
Monster Hunter review: A mindless video game adaptationSign In to read
February 05, 2021 17:59 IST
Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa are dragged through some superhuman challenges, lot of physical harm, and monsters that keep coming and coming. However, it is ultimately Anderson's mumbo jumbo effort to clothe this ordeal in "reality" that does the film in.
Fri, Feb 05, 2021Journalism of Courage
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