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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

Dangerous Animals (2025)

Cannes · Featured · Film Festivals · Review

Dangerous Animals (2025) ‘Cannes’ Movie Review: A Wildly Entertaining Stripped-to-the-Bone Slasher

Ollie Wheaton June 10, 2025

A Second Life (2025)

Featured · Film Festivals · Review · Tribeca

A Second Life (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: Agathe Rousselle Anchors This Minimalist Take on Disconnection

Debanjan Dhar June 10, 2025

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True Colours: 10 Great Female Character Actors Who Elevate Performance Art

True Colours: 10 Great Female Character Actors Who Elevate Performance Art

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Maborosi (1995)

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Tatami (2025)

Featured · Review

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

Debanjan Dhar June 9, 2025

Dangerous Animals (2025)

Cannes · Featured · Film Festivals · Review

Dangerous Animals (2025) ‘Cannes’ Movie Review: A Wildly Entertaining Stripped-to-the-Bone Slasher

Ollie Wheaton June 10, 2025

A Second Life (2025)

Featured · Film Festivals · Review · Tribeca

A Second Life (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: Agathe Rousselle Anchors This Minimalist Take on Disconnection

Debanjan Dhar June 10, 2025

Bleeding (2025) Movie

Featured · Review

Bleeding (2025) Movie Review: This Impressive Vampire Allegory Lacks Bite

Debopriyaa Dutta June 10, 2025

The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard (2025)

Featured · Film Festivals · Review · Tribeca

The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: An Ambitious and Impeccably Shot Dystopian Fairy Tale that Struggles to Deepen its Allegory

Akash Deshpande June 9, 2025

Lemonade Blessing (2025)

Featured · Film Festivals · Review · Tribeca

Lemonade Blessing (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: A Quirky Coming-of-Age Film about Living Under the Overwhelming Burden of Endless Expectations

Akash Deshpande June 9, 2025

Essays

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?

Column

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

‘Sancharram’ (The Journey, 2004)

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

Dr. Aparna Ajith June 4, 2025

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The Elder One (Moothon)

Film Festivals · MAMI · Review

The Elder One (Moothon) [2019]: ‘MAMI’ Review – A constructed drama that escapes challenges but stays relevant

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System Crasher (Systemsprenger) [2019] ‘MAMI’ Review – An Intense Psychological Drama about a hot-tempered child

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It Must Be Heaven [2019]: ‘MAMI’ Review – An Absurdist Observational Comedy Wrapped in a Meta-Critic of Political and Societal bounds

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The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) ‘BFI LFF’ Review – An Atmospheric tale of Gentrification

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Judy

Film Festivals · MAMI · Review

Judy (2019) ‘MAMI’ Review: A celebration of the life and work of Judy Garland

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Sorry We Missed You Review

Film Festivals · MAMI · Review

Sorry We Missed You [2019] ‘MAMI’ Review – Repercussions of shifting Gig-economy