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Jhalki movie review: The film will leave you unmoved
November 14, 2019 08:56 IST
Jhalki movie review: If the story is tailor-made for tears, Brahmananda S Singh doesn’t try to spare any. However, the film leaves one unmoved due to its cardboard characters, but for the spunky Jhalki, her brother Babu (Jha and Sakpal, respectively), and her village.
Thu, Nov 14, 2019
Last Christmas movie review: Strictly for fans of Emilia Clarke
November 09, 2019 05:36 IST
There is one thing going for Last Christmas, apart from the generous use of Michael's peppy hits. It poses a question regarding the world's obsession with "being special", and wonders, why can't one just be.
Sat, Nov 09, 2019
Doctor Sleep movie review: Take the Shine Off
November 09, 2019 05:27 IST
In return to The Shining's indelible hotel, the film only ends up reinforcing Doctor Sleep as a poor successor -- with a Nicholson-lookalike popping up and making McGregor look more ineffectual than he needs to.
Sat, Nov 09, 2019
JNYou and MeSubscriber Only
November 03, 2019 03:30 IST
Love blossomed on the cheap tea and samosas we had by the wayside on the JNU campus, with each of its ‘landmarks’ — the Teflas canteen, the Ganga dhaba, the library (an entire building of it!) — marking a milestone.
Sun, Nov 03, 2019
The Current War movie review: A stately and rich period film
November 01, 2019 17:59 IST
The Current War movie review: Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, whose work includes assistant-ships with names such as Martin Scorsese and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, mounts a stately and rich period film as well as some breathtaking montages of light and dark.
Fri, Nov 01, 2019
The Addams Family movie review: A lost opportunity
November 01, 2019 13:36 IST
The Addams Family movie review: The Addams Family loses its way, ironically, chasing the outrageous when most ghosts are now to be found in the ordinary.
Fri, Nov 01, 2019
Terminator Dark Fate movie review: One long battle against Rev-9
October 31, 2019 13:38 IST
Terminator Dark Fate movie review: More than the future, Dark Fate is prescient about the present.
Fri, Nov 01, 2019
Zombieland Double Tap movie review: The laughs are still coming
October 18, 2019 17:21 IST
Zombieland Double Tap movie review: While the foursome have been surviving somehow, and getting attached to each other in the process despite vowing not to do so, the zombies have been getting stronger, faster and deadlier.
Fri, Oct 18, 2019
Downton Abbey movie review: Watch it only for Maggie Smith
October 18, 2019 17:02 IST
Downton Abbey movie review: What may pass off as a nostalgic throwback to genteel times on TV, with always a promise of something to follow in the next episode, is just a sodden apology for royalty in the theatres.
Fri, Oct 18, 2019
Weathering with You movie review: A little bit of everything
October 11, 2019 18:46 IST
Weathering with You movie review: Even as you are trying to hold on to one appealing thing about Weathering With You -- and there are, admittedly, many -- director Makato Shinkai moves on to something else.
Fri, Oct 11, 2019
Gemini Man movie review: An unconvincing conflict of the clones
October 11, 2019 17:46 IST
Gemini Man movie review: This Will Smith starrer is dragged down by the fact that elements which might have been novel two decades ago - from government-trained assassins who are now State targets, to secret experiments and off-the-books soldiers - are stale from overuse now.
Fri, Oct 11, 2019
She said: Here go… a dozen facts about a fatherSubscriber Only
October 06, 2019 00:32 IST
An old men’s club where they all get a little tipsy and dance to old songs is a highlight of his calendar. Granted father is no Elvis, but did the King’s repertoire include the thumka perfected by Indian men from long practice is the question.
Sun, Oct 06, 2019
Joker movie review: Joaquin Phoenix shines in joyless film
October 02, 2019 17:18 IST
Joaquin Phoenix is the embodiment of nervous, anorexic energy in his role. He just doesn’t act with his face — with or without the joker paint. He acts with his entire body, with its ribs sticking out, its back abnormally arched, its legs leaning away from him, its feet gliding from under him, its arms flailing about.
Fri, Oct 04, 2019
Breaking down news: Fighting wordsSubscriber Only
September 28, 2019 01:02 IST
Imran Khan’s tweet on a counter-narrative to Islamophobia freaks out the Twitter AI while climate activist Greta Thunberg inspires and provokes in equal measure
Sat, Sep 28, 2019
Abominable movie review: A predictable fare
September 27, 2019 19:21 IST
Abominable is often beautiful to look at, as the road to Everest is laid out in all its beauty but little of its harshness. However, the story itself is flat, predictable and moves inexorably slowly to its end.
Sat, Sep 28, 2019
Hustlers movie review: Jennifer Lopez shines in crime drama
September 27, 2019 18:38 IST
Hustlers movie review: When Hustlers is focused on the women, particularly behind the scenes at the strip club, it's refreshing.
Sat, Sep 28, 2019
Vikram and Pragyan may be lost but that part of the Moon will indeed forever remain IndianSubscriber Only
September 22, 2019 01:16 IST
A couple of days is all it took for us to move on from talking about trajectory, deceleration, orbits and Moon terrain, to tying ourselves up in knots asking, by way of gravity, what’s maths got to do with economics.
Sun, Sep 22, 2019
The Goldfinch review: A laboriously-moving movie
September 20, 2019 18:13 IST
John Crowley of Oscar-nominated Brooklyn fame loses his way partly due to too much reverence to a subject that is difficult to portray on screen, but mostly due to a strange structure that doesn't allow the film to hit any rhythm.
Fri, Sep 20, 2019
Rambo Last Blood movie review: Blood, gore and nothing more
September 20, 2019 17:59 IST
Given how Rambo handles that first rescue of his foster daughter, it is surprising the effort he puts into the finale when he draws the bad men back to his ranch for revenge, drawing out their deaths in painful, bloody, excruciating detail.
Fri, Sep 20, 2019
Ready or Not movie review: Comedy of Terrors
September 13, 2019 15:34 IST
Treading Get Out territory, but not as much a social commentary as it would like to be, Ready or Not is a comic-horror flick that is not shy of blood, gore or pushing the envelope, but isn't finally as good as it promises to be.
Fri, Sep 13, 2019
To Aieman, the mother who lost her unborn baby amidst the Kashmir lockdownSubscriber Only
September 08, 2019 03:45 IST
Every hour, I have grappled with myself on what I would tell the 26-year-old sister of my colleague in Srinagar. To Aieman, I am the silent audience applauding the government’s semantics over Pakistan, while words like normalcy, detention, curfew lose meaning.
Thu, Sep 12, 2019
IT Chapter Two movie review: An unnecessary sequel
September 06, 2019 17:36 IST
IT Chapter Two movie review: In 2017's IT, what worked the best was that it was children, mostly quite wonderful in their roles, who were in harm's way. It's not as easy to empathise with middle-aged people, who are not as nice in their older avatars, like any of us.
Fri, Sep 06, 2019
Chhichhore movie review: A disappointing fare
September 06, 2019 12:56 IST
Sushant Singh Rajput, a dependable actor otherwise, cringingly struggles here both as a college student and a grieving father. As his ex-college mate and now former wife, Shraddha Kapoor (playing Maya), has only so much to do.
Fri, Sep 06, 2019
47 Meters Down Uncaged movie review: Dull as ditchwater
August 30, 2019 15:29 IST
47 Meters Down Uncaged movie review: Nelisse impresses the most, though, as those famous surnames Foxx and Stallone indicate, she is in illustrious company. Is that what is keeping this sequel afloat?
Fri, Aug 30, 2019
Angel Has Fallen movie review: Gerard Butler stars in another shallow film
August 23, 2019 17:43 IST
Angel Has Fallen movie review: After Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen, this time Gerard Butler's Mike Banning is out to save his own skin, after he is set up as the culprit following an assassination attempt on the President.
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