The River [2021] Locarno Review: An Overlong, Tedious Mystery Replete With Lazy Filmmaking
Lebanese writer-director Ghassan Salhab’s Locarno-premiered film The River (2021) is the last of his landscape trilogy, the previous two films…
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The Bad Man [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – How the Brutality of War Changes a Man
Many films have documented the regret and deep sorrow engulfing unwilling perpetrators of violence. The representation mostly consists of a…
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Juju Stories [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review: Tales about Magic Sans any Magic
Nigerian folklore serves as the fuel for ‘Juju Stories’, a three-part anthology film at the Locarno Festival. Directors Michael Omonua,…
Changes in Bollywood in 10 Years
Mainstream Hindi cinema has undergone cataclysmic changes in the past decade, leading to amelioration in the overall quality and variety…
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Everything Is Cinema [2021] Review: An Inspiringly Fleshed-Out Docufiction That Hits Strangely Affecting Notes
Everything Is Cinema (2021) has a deceptively simple plot. Chris is a young filmmaker who set out to film Calcutta with…
Mimi (2021) Review: Attempts Too Much Too Quickly
When Mimi (2021) dropped on Netflix, I decided to watch it immediately. I have been riding high on its catchy…
Sherni (2021) Review: A Muted Vidya Balan Roar
Amazon Prime dropped its much-awaited release Sherni (2021), starring Vidya Balan, on the 18th of June, and ever since the…
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I Carry You With Me [2021] Review: A familiar queer love story that cleverly merges into a docu-fictional narrative
The greatest asset of Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Heidi Ewing’s “I Carry You With Me” has to be how cleverly and…
Directors From Parallel Cinema Entering Mainstream Bollywood
Directors From Parallel Cinema Entering Mainstream Bollywood: Saeed Akhtar Mirza’s Naseem (1995) is a tender film dealing with a sensitive…