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Goodbye Review: Amitabh Bachchan Leads a Largely Charming Film
The Amitabh Bachchan led film wants to explore the aftermath of death, and bar a few sloppy moving parts, is largely charming and likeable.
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Big Little Lies is Back! It Continues to Ask Difficult Questions about Sexual Abuse & Trauma
Big Little Lies came out months before the #MeToo storm, shattering many of our assumptions about what victims and abusers look like. It’s only fitting that with its second season, it helps answer some of the questions left on the shore once the storm receded.
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Nanu Ki Jaanu and the Deol-ification of Abhay
With Nanu Ki Jaanu, Abhay Deol finally feels like a member of the Deol family. He fights multiple goons single-handedly, just like his “dhai kilo ka haath” cousin. His comic timing is about as good as Bobby’s, which is to say, non-existent. Where is the actor we knew and loved in Dev.D and Manorama Six Feet Under?
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Sympathy for the Devil: Creed II’s Most Compelling Character is the Villain
The latest film in the Rocky franchise brings back Ivan Drago, its most imposing, intimidating villain, only to show a softer, more human side to his character. Had this movie been titled Drago instead of Creed, he would have made a natural protagonist.
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Ben is Back Review: A Heartbreaking Take on the Addiction of Maternal Love
In Peter Hedges’ Ben Is Back, maternal love comes without an expiry date – just like drug addiction. The film investigates the aftermath of addiction, both as a raging epidemic and as a crushing emotion.
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Hindi-Medium Soup for the English-Medium Soul
Hindi Medium could have been a dire PSA film with a preachy note about our foolish love for English. Instead, it holds up a wicked mirror to ourselves. All you can do is laugh.
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First Man Review: One Giant Leap for Space Movies
Damien Chazelle’s First Man, a film about Neil Armstrong and his journey, isn’t about the mission to the moon. Or even about the moon. It’s a sombre portrait of what going to the moon and back does to a man.
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The Generic Superhero Movie Preview: Avengers Edition
This new cool superhero movie will blow your mind because it features all the famous actors in spandex unitards that you enjoyed watching in other superhero movies.
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Venom Review: We All Need a Terrible Superhero Film Every Once in a While
Venom will go on to join Suicide Squad as an anachronistically, indisputably bad superhero film in what is a golden age for the genre. Comic book fans were excited that Venom was returning to screens over a decade after his last appearance. It wasn’t worth the wait.
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The Accidental Prime Minister Review: A Disappointing Launch for the BJP’s 2019 Campaign
Somewhere in his failure to make a good, authentic film on the 10 years of UPA, Vijay Gutte delivers a movie that resembles the UPA era – incoherent, helmed by corrupt people, and that familiar feeling of wondering when the fuck you’ll get done with this bullshit. If this is the launch of the BJP 2019 campaign, I am pretty disappointed.