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One great Leonardo DiCaprio performance after another

New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, currently in theatres, is the most acclaimed American film of 2025. It is a tour de force packed with great performances, not leas... Read More


'The Ba***ds Of Bollywood' is Farah Khan for dummies

New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Back in 2007 when Farah Khan made Om Shanti Om, I had described the film as an award ceremony minus the awards: a series of in-jokes and celebrity-heavy sketches stitched around... Read More


Robert Redford was a true leading man

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- Robert Redford is out of breath. That beautiful man has just walked up six unexpected flights of stairs to his New York apartment and he is positively winded, far too tired to s... Read More


'The Paper' review: 'The Office' has a worthy spinoff

New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- Fifteen years ago, when I first started writing a regular column for a newspaper, the most poetic response came from the filmmaker Sudhir Mishra. He told me he was looking forwa... Read More


'The Thursday Murder Club' deserved a better film adaptation

New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Richard Osman's bestselling series of novels The Thursday Murder Club deserved a great adaptation, and the first book actually got one. It's just that it wasn't on screen. I con... Read More


Why the new James Bond should be... Sean Connery

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- James Bond is dead. Not only on screen-although the last of the Daniel Craig outings, No Time To Die, was indeed a weepie that killed him-but the character himself is now a perfe... Read More


The romantic (and bingeworthy) charms of 'Mad About You'

New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- My comfort-food show these days happens to be a sitcom from the 1990s. Over the years, I'd caught reruns of Mad About You-starring Paul Reiser and the incomparable Helen Hunt-but... Read More


'KPop Demon Hunters' shows how kids matter more to streaming than adults

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- If you're over 30, you've not watched the most popular animated movie in the world right now. Unless, of course, you are a parent. There exists a vast, brightly lit playground of... Read More


'Platonic' Season 2: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are back with Apple's best comedy

New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- There are times when friends are fighting when no punches are pulled. In the second season of the exceptional Apple TV+ comedy Platonic, we see Rose Byrne's Sylvia and Seth Rogen... Read More


'Sholay' at 50: A tribute to Gabbar Singh, villain beyond comparison

New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Who is the hero of Sholay? This is a valid question. Thakur, played by Sanjeev Kumar, gets the revenge. Veeru, played by Dharmendra, gets the girl. Jai, played by Amitabh Bachchan... Read More