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Baradwaj Rangan
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Seemaraja Movie Review
Sivakarthikeyan really tests his audience’s love for him in this overlong non-entertainer
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Southern Lights: Subramaniya Bharati’s Poetry In Tamil Cinema
September 11, 1921. The great Tamil poet, activist and social reformer died this day. Here are some of his songs that made it to the big screen
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FC at Venice 2018: New Films from Zhang Yimou and ‘The Babadook’ Director, plus ‘Soni’, a Terrific Indian Drama
Jennifer Kent’s second directorial effort isn’t a bad film; merely an unremarkable one we seem to have seen many times before. Ivan Ayr’s Soni proves that the gender of the filmmaker isn’t as important as the sensitivity, the empathy they bring to the table
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FC at Venice 2018: New Films From The Makers Of ‘The Lives of Others’ And ‘Son of Saul’
For about two hours, the 188-minute Never Look Away is a frustrating experience. But the last hour, imbued with a mystical quality, really works
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FC at Venice 2018: Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh, Natalie Portman in ‘Vox Lux’, plus ‘Acusada’
Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, about the famous painter is, at heart, a mood movie, about an artist who finally made peace with the fact that his real audience exists in the future. Brady Corbet’s film starring Portman as a pop star is thoughtful, enigmatic and disturbing
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C/o Kancharapalem Movie Review
This Venkatesh Maha film, starring Subba Rao and Praveena Paruchuri, is a slow-burn romance with a twist that’s not just clever but also deeply moving
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FC at Venice 2018: Joaquin Phoenix in ‘The Sisters Brothers’, ‘Charlie Says’, ‘La Quietud’
When art-house filmmakers tackle genre material, there’s always an interesting signature, whether the film ultimately succeeds or fails. I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest Jacques Audiard re-envisions the Western, but he does muddy the clean lines between heroes and villains
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FC at Venice 2018: Bradley Cooper And Lady Gaga In ‘A Star Is Born’, Plus ‘Close Enemies’
Bradley Cooper’s musical is, no doubt, a love letter to Lady Gaga, but the letter writer shines, too
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FC at Venice 2018: Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ and Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’
Luca Guadagnino’s reworking of Dario Argento’s most famous giallo work is similarly set in West Germany, in the late 1970s. But unlike the earlier film, this version takes pains to situate itself in its era
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FC at Venice 2018: Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘The Favourite’, Plus Orson Welles’s Last Work
The Other Side of the Wind is an exhausting mess of a movie, while The Favourite is a departure from Dogtooth, The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
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FC at Venice 2018: Alfonso Cuarón’s Magnificent ‘Roma,’ Plus The Other Awards At The Festival
Director Alfonso Cuarón conjures up a mood that’s so evocative that we barely notice there isn’t much that’s happening in terms of what-next
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