Review

‘Gustaakh Ishq’ movie review: When poetry becomes verbose

Vijay Varma in ‘Gustaakh Ishq’ | Photo Credit: Stage5 Production/YouTube An ageing poet, his stoic daughter and a cunning publisher…

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‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Vol 1 review: The nostalgia machine is running on fumes

I used to joke that Stranger Things arrived in my life with the sudden, strangely exhilarating clarity in the way…

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‘Andhra King Taluka’ movie review: Ram Pothineni and Upendra lead this feel-good tribute to cinema

Ram Pothineni and Bhagyashri Borse in the film | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Some bonds defy rational explanation, like the…

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IFFI 2025 | ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ movie review: Jim Jarmusch’s awkward family triptych is a tender triumph

Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother came to IFFI carrying the heavy luggage of a Golden Lion from Venice, and…

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IFFI 2025 | ‘Renoir’ movie review: Little weirdo’s Citypop summer of death

After averaging four films a day at IFFI, my brain was running on whatever fumes Peoples lager counted as. When…

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IFFI 2025 | ‘Sirat’ movie review: Rave, road, ruin, repeat in Oliver Laxe’s bone-rattling odyssey

Oliver Laxe’s Sirat is overwhelming by design. I went in wanting a desert movie with cool music and walked out…

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‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’ movie review: Jorma Tommila exacts bloody vengeance in a stoic, cathartic splatter-fest

A still from ‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’ | Photo Credit: Sony Pictures What a lean, mean fighting machine this sequel…

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IFFI 2025 | ‘It Was Just an Accident’ movie review: Jafar Panahi rage-baits his way to the year’s most exhilarating act of defiance on screen

If someone at the Indian Film Festival of India (IFFI) this year told me that the new Jafar Panahi is…

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‘Vilayath Buddha’ movie review: mass masala aspirations brings down a film with a compelling core

A scene from Vilayath Buddha.Even films which do not turn out quite as intended by its makers might leave us…

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IFFI 2025 | ‘Sentimental Value’ movie review: Joachim Trier, you menace

At some point, “Joachim Trier Summer” slipped into every cinephile’s collective cultural calendar this year, and I’ve stopped pretending it…

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