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'Disclosure Day' review: Spielberg can't reinvent the alien film this time

New Delhi, June 14 -- When his compatriots were making paranoid thrillers in the 1970s, Spielberg was busy perfecting a different kind of film, one so successful it hastened the end of the New America... Read More


'Main Vaapas Aaunga' review: Partition film is heartfelt but unadventurous

New Delhi, June 12 -- Six months later, we're back in Sargodha. Main Vaapas Aaunga journeys to the same Pakistani city Dharmendra visits in Ikkis. Both journeys represent the last wish of a man at the... Read More


'Bandar' review: A coldly effective film limited by its narrow focus

New Delhi, June 5 -- I'm not proud of it, but I don't always make it through the end credits in screenings, especially when it's Friday morning and reviews have to be filed. I did, however, watch the ... Read More


'Shape of Momo' review: A finely tuned film about family and finding oneself

New Delhi, May 30 -- The title of Tribeny Rai's debut is a mild criticism. Bishnu (Gaumaya Gurung) can make momos, they even taste fine-but they look weird. It's a running joke in the family. "No one ... Read More


'Chand Mera Dil' review: To the moon and back

New Delhi, May 23 -- Aarav (Lakshya) and his wife, Chandni (Ananya Panday), are cracking under the strain of caring for a newborn. Their frustrations boil over into an ugly yelling match. Aarav grabs ... Read More


'System' review: Unusual buddy film doesn't think its choices through

New Delhi, May 22 -- I was trying to keep an open mind about Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's System when Neha (Sonakshi Sinha) says, "Uski vibe hamesha off thhi par woh murderer type kabhi nahi laga." And that ... Read More


'That Man from Rio': Belmondo, Brazil and Tintin

New Delhi, May 17 -- It began with Tintin. Herge's comic books about a globe-trotting journalist who keeps getting into scrapes was irresistible source material at a time when cinema's latest attracti... Read More


'Kartavya' review: Saif Ali Khan digs deep but film has a familiar bleakness

New Delhi, May 15 -- By the time four thugs corner SHO Pawan Malik (Saif Ali Khan) in his home, Kartavya has been simmering for an hour and 15 minutes. Threats are made; Saif folds his arms and tells ... Read More


'Dug Dug' review: Sparkling look at the commerce and curiousness of faith

New Delhi, May 9 -- Ritwik Pareek's film opens with the image of a temple on a hill after dusk, prayer bells on the soundtrack. This gives way seconds later to shots of distant highway traffic and a g... Read More


'Ek Din' review: Sai Pallavi the one spark in earnest, stilted romance

New Delhi, May 2 -- "Do you think you're Superman?" Meera (Sai Pallavi) scolds her colleague Dino (Junaid Khan) after he nearly gets run over saving a child who wanders into traffic. He protests, and ... Read More