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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)

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

Ollie Wheaton June 10, 2025

A Second Life (2025)

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

Debanjan Dhar June 10, 2025

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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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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

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

Debopriyaa Dutta June 10, 2025

The Wolf, the Fox and the Leopard (2025)

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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)

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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

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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

‘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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Knights of Swing (2023) Movie Review

Knights of Swing (2023) Review: A triumphant and charming, albeit cheesy period piece

Far From Heaven

On Race Relations & Queerness in Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven (2002)

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Searching for the Local Übermencsch: Joel Grey in ‘Man on a Swing’ (1974)

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Tuesday (2015) Short Movie Review: An Exploration of Grief & Absence that works like a prologue to “Aftersun”