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‘Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders’ Movie Review: A Cleverly Calibrated Crime Thriller

Honey Trehan’s sequel to 'Raat Akeli Hai' (2020), starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, makes a Knives Out-sized dent in the Hindi genre landscape

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Mrs. Deshpande’ Series Review: A Sanitised and Domesticated Serial Killer Drama

Madhuri Dixit stars in a stagey crime thriller that unfolds in a hurry.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Bha Bha Ba' Movie Review: Dileep’s Mass Action Comeback Is Absolute Gibberish

In its effort to create a film that tries to be wild, we’re left feeling like we’re watching gibberish on screen.

BY Vishal Menon
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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Movie Review: James Cameron’s Beautiful Return to a World That No Longer Surprises

This third trip to Pandora with 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' is ravishing, earnest, and emotionally overloaded.

BY Anushka Halve
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'The Great Shamsuddin Family' Movie Review: Home Truths and a Fun Ensemble

Two generations of a Muslim family hold the peace—barely—in Anusha Rizvi's sweetly drawn directorial return.

BY Shilajit Mitra
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'Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2' Movie Review: Kapil Sharma Versus The World

Kapil Sharma is once again a man with many wives in this belated sequel; it's satire meets fantasy meets low comedy

BY Shilajit Mitra
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‘Single Papa’ Series Review: Kunal Kemmu's Comedy is a Flimsy Revision of the Man-Child Template

Despite a fun cast, the six-episode Netflix comedy is happy to be a rehashed portrait of single parenthood.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Saali Mohabbat’ Movie Review: Radhika Apte Stars in the Revenge of a Docile Homemaker

Starring Radhika Apte, Tisca Chopra’s feature-length directorial debut is too familiar to be twisted.

BY Rahul Desai
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'The Devil' Movie Review: Darshan's Film Is Devilishly Dated

Prakash Veer’s Kannada film twists and stretches a half-decent idea into dreadful form.

BY Sruthi Raman
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‘Real Kashmir Football Club’ Series Review: The Sport of Good Storytelling

The eight-episode series, inspired by true events, succeeds at simplifying a modern Kashmir tale through sports, humanity and balanced writing.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Dhurandhar' Movie Review: No Love Lost or Found In Ranveer Singh's Spy Thriller

Aditya Dhar’s second film after 'Uri: The Surgical Strike' stars Ranveer Singh as a patriotic spy trapped in an inert and distracted action thriller.

BY Rahul Desai
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'Kalamkaval' Movie Review: Mammootty Like Never Before In This Genre-Defining Thriller

Vinayakan is surely the film’s driving force, but Mammootty also shows us a side to him that we haven’t yet witnessed before

BY Vishal Menon
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'Stephen' Movie Review: Explosive Ideas In This Uneven Serial Killer Origin Story

This experiment never devolves into a mere indulgence and director Mithun maintains control over his complex material, even when it looks like it’s slipping away

BY Vishal Menon
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‘Angammal’ Movie Review: A Sari Blouse Becomes the Thread for a Stunning Portrait of Motherhood

Geetha Kailasam headlines this beautifully rich portrait of a woman who struggles to make sense of the changing times and her children.

BY Sruthi Ganapathy Raman
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'Nishaanchi 2' Movie Review: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Anurag Kashyap is at his most bewilderingly vague in the concluding chapter to the 'Nishaanchi' saga

BY Shilajit Mitra
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‘Perfect Family’ Series Review: A Therapeutic, Well-Acted Portrait of Dysfunctional Familyhood

The 8-episode drama, streaming on YouTube, is imperfect but compelling enough to subvert a preachy genre

BY Rahul Desai
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'Revolver Rita' Movie Review: A Lazy Comedy That Comes 15 Years Too Late

'Revolver Rita', in all fairness, appears to be a film that was found in one of the old Seagate hard disks of a gone era.

BY Vishal Menon
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‘Tere Ishk Mein’ Movie Review: When ‘Raanjhanaa’ and ‘Animal’ Enter A Toxic Relationship

Starring Dhanush and Kriti Sanon, Aanand L. Rai’s latest monument to the madness of love is very difficult to sit through.

BY Rahul Desai
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‘Kaisi Ye Paheli’ Movie Review: Technical Glitches Mar A Good One-Liner

Ananyabrata Chakravorty’s small-town whodunnit has the ideas, but fails to contain its excitement.

BY Rahul Desai