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The 11 best TV shows this year

New Delhi, Dec. 26 -- 2025 has stumbled on. While the world around us-and the people in charge-may routinely disappoint, as the air becomes less breathable and the news bleaker, we do still have binge... Read More


Remembering 'This Is Spinal Tap', the best rock movie of all

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- The 1984 masterpiece This is Spinal Tap-available to rent on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video-is the best rock movie. In the film documenting the misadventures of fictional band S... Read More


'The Chair Company' review: Chaos merchant Tim Robinson mines his anxieties

New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- Chair man, of the bored You fall off a chair and your life falls apart. This is, more or less, the premise of The Chair Company, streaming in India on JioHotstar, but that soun... Read More


Keanu Reeves' incompetent angel elevates 'Good Fortune'

New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- There's something gloriously old fashioned about Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari's wholesome buddy comedy that dares to believe in the redemptive power of kindness in an economy designe... Read More


'A Man On The Inside' remains a warmly humanist series

New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- A Man On The Inside was one of Netflix's best shows last year. It was based on a delightful (and borderline unbelievable) Chilean documentary called The Mole Agent, created by th... Read More


Dharmendra was an outsized hero who made the movies larger

New Delhi, Nov. 28 -- He was the first person to give me an autograph. I was eight. I had handed Dharmendra a notebook with a novelty cover that made it look like a sandwich, and in his massive hand, ... Read More


Is the Kim Kardashian drama 'All's Fair' really that bad?

New Delhi, Nov. 20 -- It may seem like a soft target, I know, to go after a show that has received no positive reviews at all. You might well accuse me of piling on, of kicking a well-coiffed corpse t... Read More


'Bugonia': Where Yorgos Lanthimos is taking cinema's Greek Weird Wave

New Delhi, Nov. 16 -- In Yorgos Lanthimos's new film, Bugonia, a grimy conspiracy theorist beekeeper named Teddy-played with sweaty, unhinged conviction by Jesse Plemons-kidnaps a pharmaceutical CEO n... Read More


'Nobody Wants This' feels prematurely old and lazy

New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- Philip Roth would like his font back. good romance Nobody Wants This first showed up on Netflix last year, it felt refreshing, even bracing, to see a love story on television whe... Read More


Asrani, the tyrant who tickled us

New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- The most enduring Hindi film of all, Sholay, is a symphony of vendettas and villains, yet amid the dust and dynamite, there stands Asrani like a misplaced vaudeville act, a chara... Read More