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Misbehaviour review: About impossible dreams and improbable leaps of faithSign In to read
January 22, 2021 16:39 IST
Post-MeToo, Misbehaviour seems a dash too polite, and a little too hesitant, in asking to change the world.
Fri, Jan 22, 2021
The Secret Garden review: A messy adaptation
January 08, 2021 17:29 IST
Marc Munden's The Secret Garden takes an inordinately long and circuitous route to the point of the story, with the secret garden and its significance not likely to be clear to people who haven't read the book.
Fri, Jan 08, 2021
The baaghis of Bharat & their love storiesSubscriber Only
January 03, 2021 04:00 IST
If governments have to step in as monitors of love, and be forced to continuously amend their laws so as to “tighten” them, always couched under other names, how resilient love is.
Sun, Jan 03, 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 review: A lacklustre sequel
December 24, 2020 00:01 IST
When Gal Gadot swings, swishes, slides and sashays into a fight, and slings the bad guys with her lasso, she remains a delight to watch. However, the story takes too long to get around to fights worth fighting for, wasting its first punches and precious screen time on two-penny, amateur robbers.
Thu, Dec 24, 2020
The Midnight Sky review: George Clooney directorial misses the mark
December 23, 2020 18:02 IST
The Midnight Sky drifts along almost meaninglessly, between space and Earth, not able to decide what it wants to be except an elegy to heroism.
Wed, Dec 23, 2020
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom review: Viola Davis-starrer hits all the right notes
December 18, 2020 17:38 IST
Chadwick Boseman is as eloquent in this role of the thin upstart as he was in the latent power of his Black Panther -- both characters unable to shake off their pasts. Levee's ambition makes you feel for him, and be as scared for him.
Fri, Dec 18, 2020
The Prom movie review: A headache-inducing musical
December 11, 2020 18:25 IST
The Prom movie review: You can be pardoned for expecting more than this headache-inducing, blinge-blinding, tone-deaf musical where all that glitter adds that up to so little zazz (yes, not jazz)
Sat, Dec 12, 2020
A Call to Spy movie review: Radhika Apte-starrer is un-showy and un-bombastic
December 11, 2020 13:54 IST
Director Lydia Dean Pilcher uses Radhika Apte well in the role of Noor Inayat Khan, not overplaying or undermining her Eastern ancestry, placing the talented actor shoulder-to-shoulder among her contemporaries.
Sat, Dec 12, 2020
Mank movie review: David Fincher film revels in the grey
December 04, 2020 19:06 IST
Mank movie review: Mank captures the life of Herman Mankiewicz between essentially 1933 and 1940, when America was in the midst of the Depression and watching uneasily, but from far, the gathering clouds of World War II.
Sat, Dec 05, 2020
Tenet review: Christopher Nolan’s film is underwhelming and confusing
December 04, 2020 14:57 IST
The most impressive Tenet gets is people simultaneously walking in opposite directions, and cars seemingly in reverse in our timelines, which makes for one helluva ride but not even a great car chase on screen.
Sat, Dec 05, 2020
We may already be living ‘with’ the virus, like we live with those other risksSubscriber Only
November 08, 2020 03:30 IST
Do we have an answer for the voter who told this paper in Bihar that he can’t understand why he was paying the price for the lockdown... “I don’t know of anyone who has died of corona.”
Sun, Nov 08, 2020
Give me Rhea’s fortitude any daySubscriber Only
September 13, 2020 03:20 IST
What the world still wants is a sacrificial Sita, not the demanding Draupadi, who called out her husband’s cowardice and avarice in subjecting her to a public stripping.
Sun, Sep 13, 2020
Explained: How the Oscar Awards are going to be different once again, and whySubscriber Only
June 15, 2020 04:25 IST
The Academy is aiming to develop new “representation and inclusion standards” for awards, with a task force to come out with these by July 31.
Tue, Jun 16, 2020
May 19-June 7, Delhi: A Covid diarySubscriber Only
June 14, 2020 04:02 IST
As the Centre and Supreme Court raise alarm over the Capital, where numbers are surging and hospital facilities falling short, Shalini Langer on her family’s story — from a testing centre to an ICU, sanitisation to house inspection, officials to RWA, and infection to recovery.
Sun, Jun 14, 2020
Why Rahul Gandhi’s interview with Raghuram Rajan was the unkindest cutSubscriber Only
May 15, 2020 03:55 IST
As those two good-looking, rich-looking, well-meaning men worried politely about lesser mortals, one couldn’t take one’s eyes off that young-again, old-again; president-again, not-president again; stubble again, no-stubble again, leader of the Congress.
Sun, May 17, 2020
What will we even tell our children? How long before they can take the Metro or hug a friendSubscriber Only
May 03, 2020 00:56 IST
Social distancing now has medical legitimacy.
Sun, May 03, 2020
Onward movie review: A decent watch
March 06, 2020 15:00 IST
Onward often seems confused about that line between magic that seeks to impress, and magic that just is. It is also too much about a lot of things.
Sat, Mar 07, 2020
The Invisible Man movie review: Elisabeth Moss shines in this adaptation
February 28, 2020 15:51 IST
The Invisible Man movie review: Elisabeth Moss, she of the vulnerable face and the moist eyes, is shouldering her first solo-lead here. And she does a commendable job with what she gets, which is mostly staring at seemingly empty corners and lurking around quiet houses.
Fri, Feb 28, 2020
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan review: The chase of love
February 21, 2020 14:59 IST
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan review: Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan's achievement lies not just in going where Bollywood has not gone before. It is in consistently portraying Kartik (Ayushmann Khurrana) and Aman (a superb Jitendra Kumar in his debut film role) as just a couple, not 'homo' or 'hetero'.
Sat, Feb 22, 2020
Bhoot review: Vicky Kaushal is the saving grace of this horror film
February 20, 2020 21:49 IST
Bhoot review: Bhumi Pednekar and Ashutosh Rana are there to add brief acting heft, and to do some mantra-reciting ghost-fighting. A large part, however, is left to the able and much-taxed shoulders of Vicky Kaushal.
Sat, Feb 22, 2020
Now that the drum beats of Delhi election battle have died, how long will our interest in Shaheen Bagh lastSubscriber Only
February 16, 2020 01:07 IST
When they come to “clear the road”, what will they do with the India map made of scrap and beautified with lights in what can only be a labour of love? What happens to that man playing songs of protest? What happens to those songs even?
Sun, Feb 16, 2020
Fantasy Island movie review: This Blumhouse film is a mess
February 14, 2020 17:01 IST
Fantasy Island movie review: The whole premise of Fantasy Island is what would happen if people got second chances. The only good ending would be if the film didn't get one.
Fri, Feb 14, 2020
Little Women review: A near-perfect adaptation
February 07, 2020 17:38 IST
Little Women movie review: Writer-director Greta Gerwig gets right to the heart of it, capturing the small, everyday rebellions of the story set in the 1860s, and making it as current as it was 150 years ago.
Sat, Feb 08, 2020
Birds of Prey movie review: A sprightly superhero film
February 07, 2020 12:45 IST
Birds of Prey movie review: Margot Robbie, who stuns with how she can go from mania to tragedy in the blink of an eye, doesn’t really need the help of all that colour and wide-lipped grin to get your attention.
Sat, Feb 08, 2020
The Gentlemen movie review: A testosterone-fueled romp
January 31, 2020 18:55 IST
Hugh Grant is so different that he takes you by surprise, Colin Farrell hams it with a dizzyingly dulled down wardrobe, while Charlie Hunnam has the meatiest lines and part. Matthew McConaughey looks simply bored, as if too good for a role whose only requirement is having fun.
Fri, Jan 31, 2020Journalism of Courage
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