Featured · Films This Week · Review Dhadak 2 (2025) Movie Review: An adaptation that doesn’t water down caste-based discrimination in favour of telling a love story Shikhar Verma August 7, 2025
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Films This Week · Review Saiyaara (2025) Movie Review: A Somewhat Sincere Love Ballad Peppered With Familiar Mohit Suri-Isms Shikhar Verma July 24, 2025
Featured · Film Festivals · Locarno · Review Solomamma (2025) ‘Locarno’ Movie Review: Lisa Loven Kongsli and Herbert Nordrum Make a Winsome Duo in Richly Conflicting Maternal Drama Debanjan Dhar August 11, 2025August 11, 2025
Featured · Film Festivals · Locarno · Review Legend of the Happy Worker (2025) ‘Locarno’ Movie Review: A Preachy, Mawkish, and Inconsistent Fable that Feels Like a Misfire Akash Deshpande August 9, 2025August 9, 2025
Featured · Film Festivals · Locarno · Review God Will Not Help (2025) ‘Locarno’ Movie Review: Bristling Study of Gendered Power Thrives in Gaps Debanjan Dhar August 9, 2025August 9, 2025
Featured · Film Festivals · Locarno · Review Phantoms of July (2025) ‘Locarno’ Movie Review: Julian Radlmaier Helms a Warmly Absorbing Fable of Transcendence Debanjan Dhar August 9, 2025August 9, 2025
Fantasia · Featured · Film Festivals · Review Foreigner (2025) ‘Fantasia’ Movie Review: A Slight Genre Affair that Feels Like a Cross Between ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Get Out’ Akash Deshpande August 1, 2025July 29, 2025
Fantasia · Featured · Film Festivals · Review Sham (2025) ‘Fantasia’ Movie Review: Takashi Miike’s Rashomon-Riff-Turned-Witch-Hunt Struggles To Make Its Case In Court Julian Malandruccolo July 31, 2025July 31, 2025
Featured · Film Festivals · Locarno · ReviewSolomamma (2025) ‘Locarno’ Movie Review: Lisa Loven Kongsli and Herbert Nordrum Make a Winsome Duo in Richly Conflicting Maternal DramaAugust 11, 2025 Debanjan Dhar
ReviewRomancing Sydney (2025) Movie Review: A loosely bound rom-com that is unable to follow its uneven rhythmsAugust 11, 2025 Shikhar Verma
Featured · ReviewLargo (2025) Short Film Review: A Poetic Witness to a Refugee Boy’s Odyssey August 11, 2025 Soumalya Chatterjee
Solomamma (2025) ‘Locarno’ Movie Review: Lisa Loven Kongsli and Herbert Nordrum Make a Winsome Duo in Richly Conflicting Maternal Drama
Romancing Sydney (2025) Movie Review: A loosely bound rom-com that is unable to follow its uneven rhythms
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BFI London Film Festival · Film Festivals · Review Mangrove [2020]: ‘BFI-LFF’ Review – A poignant and overlooked account directed with style Freddie Kay October 16, 2020
MUBI · Review Amodini [1994] MUBI Review: Visual Elegance complimented by Scathing Social Commentary Shashwat Sisodiya May 8, 2021
MUBI · Review Padatik [1973] Mubi Review – The Solitude of a Young Revolutionary Arun Kumar October 16, 2020
Review Time of Moulting [2020]: ‘Nightstream’ Review – A slow burn mood piece too prescient for its own good. Amartya Acharya February 24, 2021
Film Festivals · Review · TIFF Gaza Mon Amour [2020]: ‘TIFF’ Review – A unconventionally charming romance amidst police discourse Shikhar Verma October 13, 2020
Review The Wind that Shakes the Barley [2006] Review – A Bereaved Account of a Nation’s Uprising Arun Kumar November 10, 2020
Review Pasolini’s Teorema (1968): Mystical Manifesto of the Communist Party Levan Tskhovrebadze February 24, 2021
Prime Video · Review Gantumoote [2019] Amazon Prime Review – Torn-away pages from the diary of a Kannada girl Jeeva Pitchaimani November 9, 2020
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