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A Real Pain: Jesse Eisenberg’s Film Revises the Way We See the Failure in the Family

19.01.2025 20

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Tatsam Mukherjee

‘Heart Over Mind’: The Best Hindi Films of 2024

2024 has been an ugly year to be a fan of Hindi cinema. We’ve seen independent voices being crushed and shut out of the system with little to no...

29.12.2024 3

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Tatsam Mukherjee

'Squid Game 2' Has a Hearty Laugh About 'Democracy' and 'Free Will' in an Unequal Society

Like it happens with the follow-up for any successful show, I entered the Squid Game 2 with a fair bit of trepidation. What worked in the first...

28.12.2024 6

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Tatsam Mukherjee

‘Baby John’ Is a Culmination of Hindi Cinema’s Laziest Instincts in 2024

Nothing screams ‘crisis’ in Hindi cinema right now more than Salman Khan showing up in his second ‘star cameo’ of the year – hedging his...

26.12.2024 3

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Tatsam Mukherjee

'All We Imagine As Light' Is a Sentient Ode to – and a Lament for – the Spirit of Mumbai

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light (AWIAL) establishes its Mumbai DNA early on. A visibly-tired Anu (Divya Prabha), an upstart nurse in a city...

22.11.2024 5

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Tatsam Mukherjee

‘The Remarkable Life of Ibelin’, a Film That Forces us to Revise Our Notions of the Real and Truthful

I know the exact moment when Benjamin Ree’s The Remarkable Life of Ibelin swept me off my feet. It’s when Mats Steen, a gamer in his early 20s from...

05.11.2024 1

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Tatsam Mukherjee

In ‘Singham Again’, Rohit Shetty Goes for Loud Hindutva Populism for Box Office Bucks

Singham Again might be the most half-hearted, insincere film in Rohit Shetty’s career of two decades. Which is saying a lot, given that Shetty is a...

02.11.2024 2

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Tatsam Mukherjee

'Anora' Is a Winsome Reimagination of 'Pretty Woman' With Some Twists

A lot of the splendour in Sean Baker’s Anora lies in its treatment – where we might be shown one thing, but deliberately made to feel something...

29.10.2024 10

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Tatsam Mukherjee

In Jigra, Alia Bhatt Successfully Reinvents the Cornered Anti-Hero of 1970s Bollywood

The clock’s ticking for Satya (Alia Bhatt) in Vasan Bala’s Jigra. Her brother Ankur (Vedang Raina) is on death row in an island nation called...

12.10.2024 2

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Tatsam Mukherjee

CTRL, A Digital Screen Thriller Is A Tepid Look at the Evils of Big Tech

There’s one significant challenge to making ‘screen-life films’ (films that unfold almost entirely on digital screens). Once you commit to its...

04.10.2024 1

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Tatsam Mukherjee

The Buckingham Murders Remains a Conventional and Underwhelming Mystery

The one time I laughed out loud during Hansal Mehta’s The Buckingham Murders, is when the film’s protagonist, Jaspreet Bhamra (Kareena Kapoor Khan)...

15.09.2024 6

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Tatsam Mukherjee

‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ Is Competent, Evokes a Sense of Deja Vu

Weaving archival footage into a film/series that is based on real-life incidents, is an art form in itself. Most filmmakers prefer doing it in the...

01.09.2024 4

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Tatsam Mukherjee

‘Kottukkaali’: P.S. Vinothraj’s Film is a Devastating Silent Scream of Defiance

P.S. Vinthoraj’s second feature film, Kottukkaali (‘The Adamant Girl’) ends with a question for its audience, which reminded me of Hrishikesh...

30.08.2024 2

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Tatsam Mukherjee

Angry Young Men: A Starstruck Docu-Series That Doesn’t Ask Tough Questions of Its Subjects

There’s only one thing we, as Indians, love more than watching our movie stars on screen, which is seeing our movie stars rave breathlessly about...

22.08.2024 10

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Tatsam Mukherjee

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: The Joys of a Diwali Sparkler in a Run-of-the-Mill Franchise Film

The problem with critiquing Shawn Levy’s Deadpool & Wolverine is that it has already anticipated and addressed a large part of the criticism coming...

27.07.2024 1

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Tatsam Mukherjee