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Dobaaraa Review: More than just a faithful adaptation
Dobaaraa has plenty of things working work it including Tapsee Pannu’s acting and Anurag Kashyap’s direction. In fact, it possibly outdoes the original.
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Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga Review: The Lesbian Love Story a Post-377 India Needs
A small-town lesbian love story might make Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga the most unexpected romance of the year, but equally riveting is its secondary plot. The Sonam Kapoor-starrer needs to be lauded for its honest portrayal of parent-child relationships, and exactly how far Indian children go to not disappoint their parents.
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Review: An Affectionate Portrait of ’60s Hollywood
Most movies look to use nostalgia as a tool, but Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature, seems to have cracked the code on using it as a weapon. It’s a detailed time-machine leading to the Hollywood backlots of the ’60s, only reimagined in Tarantino’s own flamboyant image.
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Darlings Review: Great Performances Propel a Slow-Burn Dramedy
Darlings take its sweet time to get going, but is shouldered by three impeccable performances that become the mainstay of a film happy to avoid genre clichés.
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Shape of Water and Our Fascination with Monster Romance
Greek mythology is full of lusty satyrs and centaurs that sleep with goddesses. Hokusai's “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” is considered an early progenitor of tentacle porn. And The Shape of Water is a story, lush with adult desires, about outsiders. Why are we so fascinated by beasts and monsters?
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Why Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther Will Always Be More than Just Another Superhero Film
Black Panther transcends the stereotype of being “just” a superhero blockbuster, which is becoming an art Marvel films have started to perfect. It’s a post-colonial sci-fi saga with something important to say.
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Laal Singh Chaddha review: A Faithful Adaptation that Never Quite Soars
Laal Singh Chaddha is a faithful remake of Forrest Gump but besides a couple of heartfelt moments it imports no language or perspective of its own.
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Ram Setu Review: A Fast-paced but Ultimately Disappointing Adventure
Akshay Kumar’s fifth film of 2022 might just be the best of the lot – but it falls short of being a truly compelling action-adventure because of some weak plotting and unconvincing visual effects.
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Brahmastra Part One Review: A Chaotic Spectacle That Mostly Lives Up To The Hype
There’s much to appreciate in the simple, sometimes wobbly, but relentlessly large-hearted intentions of this first instalment in Ayan Mukerji’s years-in-the-making saga.
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Paddington 2 Bears Kindness in the Age of Fear-mongering
Paddington 2, with its firm anti-Brexit tone, is a pertinent film in our prevailing climate of fear-mongering and othering. It’s a movie that could do the children some good, and also the adults they come to watch it with.