Reviews
Music Review of AR Rahman's Dil Bechara Album
The composer teams up with lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya to deliver a soundtrack of exquisite duets and a winning title song for Sushant Singh Rajput’s final film
Musical Chair Movie Review: The Meaningless Search For Life’s Meaning
The film, directed by and starring Vipin Atley, released directly on OTT platform Mainstream TV.
Fantasy Island Review: Michael Pena Starrer Survival Saga
A sped-up story told with the internal logic of a colonizer-child
A Spoiler-Filled Review Of Bulbbul, With Tripti Dimri, On Netflix
What we have here is a fever-dreamscape quasi-giallo movie, which transforms the pulp premise of a female vigilante into something very human and emotional and deeply mysterious.
Desperados On Netflix Is More Uncomfortable Than It Is Unfunny
The bland characters and puerile jokes in the film are excruciatingly bad – making it difficult to give Desperados even the label of a guilty pleasure
Greyhound Movie Review: An Intimate Naval Thriller Anchored By The Goodness Of Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks stars, but he is also credited for the screenplay of Greyhound, a World War II film of relentless pressure and exquisite rhythm
Warrior Nun: A Wannabe Superhero Series That Is Still Enjoyable
With its flaky attempt at creating a punchy and thrilling origin story, this series only does the bare minimum to keep you engaged throughout
The Old Guard Review: There’s Unexpected Poetry In This Violence
What begins as a story of immortals fighting the big-pharma complex, ends as a poetic lament of life
Breathe: Into the Shadows Is A Woefully Written Thriller
One can’t help but wonder if the makers just stopped trusting their performers midway and instead altered the script to manipulate the myths of mental illness
Review Of Yogi-Babu Starrer Cocktail
Looking for political correctness in a film headlined by poor-old Yogi Babu is like Googling the meaning of a Vijay Antony song, but even so Cocktail is a film where even its regressiveness is borrowed
Khayali Pulao Is A Neatly Crafted Short Film Starring Prajakta Koli
A neatly crafted short film that silently spotlights the role of technology in the cultural evolution of an entire generation.
Kothanodi Never Loses Sight of its Primary Nature as a Bedtime Yarn
The 2015 folk horror film got none of the attention of its director Bhaskar Hazarika’s second film Aamis, but it has some of its mess-with-your-head provocativeness
