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Napad (2024)
A police car drives up on a remote road. The driver stops to ask a passerby for directions to a Tadeusz Gadacz’s residence. The car comes to a stop and a serious-looking woman steps out and walks on a muddy pathway and across a tiny…
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Killer Heat (2024)
Killer Heat opens with private detective Nick Bali (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) arriving on a picturesque Greek island to investigate the accidental death of a wealthy resident Leo Vardakis in a freak climbing accident. He has come at the behest of the deceased man’s sister-in-law Penelope (Shailene…
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Meiyazhagan (2024)
Meiyazhagan is an emotional rollercoaster in the best ways. It tugs at your heartstrings, squeezing out the essence of everything good in relationships, family, and the goodness of people—in the best of times, and at the worst. Does it succeed? Very well. The movie sets…
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Do Patti (2024)
DO PATTI, BUT EK NA CHALI!Do Patti scores top marks for me as one of the worst A-lister Hindi films I have seen in recent times. I like both Kriti Sanon and Kajol as very capable actors, but Do Patti is that one film that…
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Mausam (1975)
The movie begins with the gentle tune of “Dil dhundhta hai fir wahi fursat ke Raat din” as a merc travels through the winding roads of Darjeeling, and you know you are set for a soul stirring journey for the next two hours or so.…
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Wit (2001)
A room. A doctor. A potential experimentee. Dr Bearing is a scholar in seventeenth-century English poetry. Dr Kelekian is an oncologist. He has bad news for Dr Bearing. It is cancer. The patient seems to be bearing the news as well as one can, given…
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Venom: the Last Dance (2024)
VENOMENAL? NOT QUITE. I rarely watch movies on the first day of its release. Yes, I do sometimes; usually Superstar Rajini’s movies (not all of them!), or something I got super-hyped waiting for—like The Batman (the new one). This time was a fluke thanks once…
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Do Patti (2024)
Director: Okay ladies I have a movie for you Kajol: Yes Yes Yes I wanna do a movie Kriti: Me too. But I won’t be a robot again Director: Alright, well, this is not about robots, it’s a thriller Kajol: A thrillerrrrrrrr Director: Yes a…
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Meiyazhagan (2024)
Once, during the evening, I sat down on the balcony and stared at the sky. I watched the sky change its color, hues of bright blue turning darker, the sky getting swirled with shades of orange and pink as the sun started setting. And then…
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1000 Babies (2024)
It’s gruesome, it’s horrifying, it’s terrifying and yet it tends to lose its grip. 1000 Babies starts off really well as it creates a web of intrigue backed by a melancholy setting about an old crazy woman who seems to have lost her mental balance.…
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Khel Khel Mein (2024)
The plot is stolen (okay, adapted). Even the title is stolen from an old Rishi Kapoor movie. The star cast seems frivolous. The trailer made it look like a slapstick comedy. And it has Akshay Kumar. So basically I went about watching this movie with…
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Stree 2 (2024)
Stree 2 is the 4th installment in the Maddock Supernatural Universe, directed by Amar Kaushik. And as things would have it, the supernatural universe gets worse and worse. The movie is one more entry into the genre of “horror-comedy” where the horror is funny and…
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Vedaa (2024)
Vedaa is a movie about a young woman resisting the caste system and fighting against the antagonist. Wait no… sorry, Vedaa is a movie based on true events about honour killings. Oh wait no sorry again, Vedaa is about a court martialed Major who fights…
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The Critic (2023)
A POLITELY ENGLISH HATE LETTER TO CRITICS A majority of 51% of professional critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website actively dislike “The Critic” while an even larger majority of 71% of paying viewers like it. What does this tell us about the schism between audience…
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Boston Strangler (2023)
STRANGLER DANGLER For those who don’t know about the infamous string of killings that shook Boston in the 1960s — 13 women killed in near-identical circumstances, all strangled to death with the bodies left decorated with a stocking bow tie around the neck — this…
