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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
Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore movie review: A trick that has far outlived its big finish
Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore movie review: It’s hard to shake off the knowledge that we are still in the middle of a very long, very successful commercial franchise that has long put behind where it all started.
Fri, Apr 08, 2022
Morbius movie review: This Jared Leto film proves that the best of Morbius is already behind him
Morbius movie review: Morbius is a cash-grab that knows what it is. Jared Leto film goes for an understated, consistent story where great powers do come with great responsibilities.
Fri, Apr 01, 2022
King Richard movie review: Will Smith aims for glory
King Richard movie review: Even in the highly competitive, fishbowl world of parenting, Richard Williams stood apart. He didn't just dream big, he dreamed big twice over.
Sat, Mar 26, 2022
All things fair and un-ugly: Gangubai Bollywood wadi
It is in this world that Gangubai Kathiawadi belonged, and beat it enough times to earn a bust with a plaque in her room in Kamathipura, a chapter in a book on the Mafia Queens of Mumbai, and a film on her.
Sun, Mar 20, 2022
Parallel Mothers review: Penelope Cruz shines in Pedro Almodóvar film
Parallel Mothers movie review: While the Oscar-nominated Penelope Cruz is just very, very good as a woman confronting motherhood, loss and peace, Milena Smit matches her step by step despite her obvious, striking youth.
Fri, Mar 11, 2022
The Batman review: A bloated 3-hour marathon dragged down by ponderous dialogue
The Batman review: The Batman makes a big deal of a lot about its hero. Everything about him moves in slower motion, which by the way could partly explain the bloated 3-hour length of the film.
Fri, Mar 04, 2022
Licorice Pizza movie review: A warm, sunny and pleasurable nostalgia trip
Licorice Pizza movie review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s most relaxed and happy film, Licorice Pizza has hardly any clouds on its horizon.
Fri, Feb 25, 2022