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Kung Fu Panda 4 movie review: It’s easy to lose attention and hard to care
March 15, 2024 15:56 IST
Kung Fu Panda 4 movie review: Jack Black and Awkwafina are a hoot but Viola Davis is surprisingly ineffective, failing to evoke the irresistible charisma that marks the best of villains.
Fri, Mar 15, 2024
All of Us Strangers movie review: A poignant film
March 08, 2024 21:32 IST
All of Us Strangers review: Is there love without hurt? And what makes it still worth all the hurt? That lies at the heart of this poignant film about a middle-aged man dealing with childhood loss,
Fri, Mar 08, 2024
The Color Purple movie review: This adaptation is worth your time
March 08, 2024 17:36 IST
While the 1985 Color Purple was more specific to Celie, and ended up speaking to womanhood at a personal as well as a general level, this version is more about one community — and thus more constrained to that extent.
Fri, Mar 08, 2024
The Zone of Interest movie review: Jonathan Glazer captures banality of evil in harrowing detail
March 01, 2024 16:41 IST
The Zone of Interest movie review: The film wants us to think once, twice, and again, how easy it is for evil to thrive among us, and for us to turn a blind eye.
Fri, Mar 01, 2024
Dune Part Two movie review: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya return in a stunning exemplar of cinema’s imagination
February 29, 2024 10:18 IST
Dune Part Two movie review: Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya's film is bigger, bolder and more beautiful as it creates an impossibly perfect setting for a story that can never settle down for one thing.
Thu, Feb 29, 2024
Mean Girls movie review: Literally, who cares?
February 23, 2024 15:30 IST
Mean Girls movie review: Mean Girls 2024 follows almost to a tee the set template of 2004, with a few cosmetic upgrades.
Fri, Feb 23, 2024
Article 370 movie review: Yami Gautam-starrer serves its politics unabashedly as it mixes facts with fiction
February 23, 2024 09:25 IST
Article 370 movie review: Mixing facts with fiction, and some convenient untruths, Article 370 presents the government of the day's scrapping of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir as a masterclass in State craft.
Fri, Feb 23, 2024
The Holdovers movie review: Paul Giamatti showcases his formidable range
February 16, 2024 19:05 IST
The Holdovers movie review: Director Alexander Payne, a teller of stories bearing a lifetime of regret, brings it down to one teacher, one student, and one mess staffer.
Fri, Feb 16, 2024
Madame Web movie review: Dakota Johnson can’t save this dreary film
February 16, 2024 18:21 IST
Madame Web movie review: Having jumped several loops on the way to the screen itself, including years in planning and rewrites, the uncertainty of this Dakota Johnson-starrer of its place is evident.
Fri, Feb 16, 2024
The Iron Claw movie review: Zac Efron can’t save Sean Durkin’s befuddling wrestling tragedy
February 09, 2024 15:02 IST
The sporting world is replete with stories of athletes and their falling out with their parents. But the problem is that writer-director Sean Durkin can't decide between being in awe of the Von Erichs for their success, or being in pain for their real losses in a sport that is, at the heart of it, make-believe.
Fri, Feb 09, 2024
Argylle movie review: An epic misfire
February 02, 2024 18:32 IST
Argylle is a good example of why just a long list of stars, spies, lies and plot twists does not make a good film.
Fri, Feb 02, 2024
Next Goal Wins movie review: Taika Waititi keeps it light and fun
February 02, 2024 18:18 IST
We have seen too many underdog sports stories to know the template – Next Goal Wins even gives us dialogues from one of those, Any Given Sunday. These involve a lot of anger, passion, injuries, and heartbreaks, in the way to that promised glory.
Fri, Feb 02, 2024
The Anatomy of a Fall movie review: This deeply intelligent film turns cynicism of courtroom dramas on its head
February 02, 2024 11:13 IST
The Anatomy of a Fall movie review: What happens when one of them meets a bloody, unnatural death, and the only one around at the time is the spouse?
Fri, Feb 02, 2024
The Ram we needSubscriber Only
January 21, 2024 07:30 IST
If mobile is the miracle, you will find, Google is our “god” equivalent, omniscient, omnipresent, everyone, everywhere.
Mon, Jan 22, 2024
The Beekeeper movie review: Jason Statham returns in a stinging actioner
January 19, 2024 17:02 IST
The Beekeeper movie review: This film is about is Statham and Statham alone, plus how many things one can throw at the charismatic action star without him needing to catch his breath.
Fri, Jan 19, 2024
Anyone But You movie review: A bland, ticking-all-boxes kind of romedy
January 19, 2024 14:05 IST
Anyone But You movie review: Glen Powell, Sydney Sweeney film lands on the thin dividing line between love and indifference.
Fri, Jan 19, 2024
Dream Scenario movie review: Nicolas Cage thrives in Kristoffer Borgli film
January 05, 2024 18:29 IST
While humour and biting insight serve the film very well for the most part, in its latter stretches, it tends to drag just a little – overstretching its point.
Fri, Jan 05, 2024
Migration movie review: The film has its heart in the right place
December 29, 2023 13:58 IST
Migration review: Migration keeps returning to the humans, and their buildings, and their cities, and their trash – nothing we haven't seen before, nor propelling the story in any new direction.
Fri, Dec 29, 2023
Priscilla movie review: Cailee Spaeny shines in intimate portrait of Elvis Presley’s wife
December 15, 2023 18:20 IST
Priscilla ultimately is another addition to Sofia Coppola's long list of lovely, lonely heroines – both lonely in their loveliness and lovely in their loneliness.
Sat, Dec 16, 2023
Wonka movie review: Hugh Grant is the sugar rush in this uncomplicated Timothee Chalamet film
December 08, 2023 14:45 IST
Wonka movie review: Given the waves of blood and bodies coming at us from the big screen these days, Wonka is in a lot of ways a relief – and a sign that Hollywood is marking a change of season to Christmas.
Fri, Dec 08, 2023
Napoleon review: Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby’s inspired performances lift impressively mounted film
November 24, 2023 16:27 IST
Napoleon movie review: Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby add layers to Ridley Scott's film with their inspired performances.
Fri, Nov 24, 2023
Trolls Band Together movie review: Justin Timberlake-fronted family homily will deafen you with sound, blind you with colour
November 17, 2023 15:53 IST
Trolls Band Together movie review: Justin Timberlake's former band 'NSYNC comes together to belt their first number in 20 years. It's the third Trolls film in seven years. Hard to say what has aged worse.
Fri, Nov 17, 2023
The Marvels movie review: Brie Larson, Iman Vellani’s film is tired, messed up
November 10, 2023 15:50 IST
The Marvels movie review: On paper, an all-woman Marvel team out to save the world is an intriguing idea but it is used to no particular effect or laughs or mystery.
Fri, Nov 10, 2023
The Marsh King’s Daughter movie review: The Daisey Ridley-starrer seems unfulfilling
November 03, 2023 18:17 IST
The Marsh King's Daughter review: The Marsh King's Daughter would have been much better served focusing on the relationship in the title. Even without being kings of marshes, fathers are heroes for their little girls, hard to let go of.
Fri, Nov 03, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon movie review: A compelling story of greed, evil, privilege and exploitation
October 27, 2023 17:43 IST
Killers of the Flower Moon movie review: Martin Scorsese could not have planned it, but the film comes right when questions of land and who it belongs to is occupying our headlines.
Fri, Oct 27, 2023Journalism of Courage
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