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Tow (2025)

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Tow (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: A Fierce and Spectacular Rose Byrne Lifts This Drama Of Resistance

Debanjan Dhar June 12, 2025

Escape from the 21st Century (2025) Movie Review: An endlessly creative and breathlessly wild genre mash-up

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Escape from the 21st Century (2025) Movie Review: An endlessly creative and breathlessly wild genre mash-up

Shikhar Verma June 12, 2025

Deep Cover (2025)

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Deep Cover (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: A Hysterical, Crisply Written Comedy of Errors that Hits All the Right Notes

Akash Deshpande June 12, 2025

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Tow (2025)

Featured · Film Festivals · Review · Tribeca

Tow (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: A Fierce and Spectacular Rose Byrne Lifts This Drama Of Resistance

Debanjan Dhar June 12, 2025

Escape from the 21st Century (2025) Movie Review: An endlessly creative and breathlessly wild genre mash-up

Featured · Review

Escape from the 21st Century (2025) Movie Review: An endlessly creative and breathlessly wild genre mash-up

Shikhar Verma June 12, 2025

Deep Cover (2025)

Featured · Film Festivals · Review · Tribeca

Deep Cover (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: A Hysterical, Crisply Written Comedy of Errors that Hits All the Right Notes

Akash Deshpande June 12, 2025

Cheers to Life (Viva a Vida, 2025)

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Cheers to Life (Viva a Vida, 2025) Movie Review & Ending Explained: Will Jessica Find Her Estranged Family?

Sanghavi P.S June 11, 2025

How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

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How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Movie Review: A Derivative yet Riveting Fantasy Remake

Liam Gaughan June 11, 2025

Tatami (2025)

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Tatami (2025) Movie Review: Zar Amir Ebrahimi’s Political Sports Drama Bristles with Fury

Debanjan Dhar June 9, 2025

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The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame

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The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame

Gentrit Miftari June 10, 2025

Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes

Essay

Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes

Santosh Kumar Mamgain June 8, 2025

What ‘Havoc’ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?

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What ‘Havoc’ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?

Ritesh Sharma June 7, 2025

Dreams on a Train: Psychoanalysis and the Subconscious Journey in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Nayak’ (1966)

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Dreams on a Train: Psychoanalysis and the Subconscious Journey in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Nayak’ (1966)

Shivani Muralikrishna June 7, 2025

“A War” (Krigen, 2015)

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Anatomy of ‘A War’: Tobias Lindholm’s Unflinching Dissection of War

Soumalya Chatterjee June 5, 2025

Queering the Routes and Roots in the ‘Sancharram’ (The Journey, 2004)

Column

Queering the Routes and Roots in the ‘Sancharram’ (The Journey, 2004)

Dr. Aparna Ajith June 11, 2025

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