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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 9, 2025

A Second Life (2025)

Featured · Film Festivals · Review · Tribeca

A Second Life (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: Agathe Rousselle anchors minimalist take on disconnection

Debanjan Dhar June 9, 2025

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John Wick (2014) | Every John Wick Movies, Ranked

All movies in the John Wick Universe (including Ballerina), Ranked

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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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Reviews

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 9, 2025

A Second Life (2025)

Featured · Film Festivals · Review · Tribeca

A Second Life (2025) ‘Tribeca’ Movie Review: Agathe Rousselle anchors minimalist take on disconnection

Debanjan Dhar June 9, 2025

Bleeding (2025) Movie

Featured · Review

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

Debopriyaa Dutta June 9, 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

Column

The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame

Gentrit Miftari June 9, 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)

Column

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

Shivani Muralikrishna June 7, 2025

“A War” (Krigen, 2015)

Column

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

Soumalya Chatterjee June 5, 2025

‘Sancharram’ (The Journey, 2004)

Column

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

Dr. Aparna Ajith June 4, 2025

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The Fiances (I Fidanzati)

Great Films · Review

The Fiances (I Fidanzati) [1963] Review – Love Lingers in a Parched, Industrialized Land

The Laundromat Netflix

Netflix · Review

The Laundromat (2019) Netflix Review: A complex subject presented in a satirical manner

Drive Netflix

Netflix · Review

Drive (2019) Netflix Review: A hotchpotch and incoherent mess

Jallikattu

Films This Week · Review

Jallikattu [2019] Review: How masculinity is rendered fragile with its volatility

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Halloween in the Harry Potter Films

The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be

Film Festivals · Review · Venice Film Festival

The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be [2019] ‘Venice’ Review

Family Romance LLC

Film Festivals · MAMI · Review

Family Romance LLC [2019]: ‘MAMI’ Review – This gentle detour for the German legend is a weird examination of modern relationships

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Joker (2019): Phoenix Soars in a Menacing Origin Story of the Iconic Villain