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Charli XCX's 'Music, Fashion, Film' is irresistible mood board art

New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- It drives me crazy when studios release making-of featurettes from films that are yet to release. It feels like more than ever, we're getting the explanation before the work. Toda... Read More


'Operation Safed Sagar' review: An unusually level-headed Indo-Pak war series

New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Two months into the Kargil War, Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif determines to see with his eyes what his heart already suspects: that they're losing the battle. At Skardu base, he's rec... Read More


'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' review: Marvel's blandest series trudges on

New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- This past week, I've had a dull, throbbing ache in my head. It gets distractingly painful at times, and I was worried about the aftereffects of waking up early on Friday, heading ... Read More


'The Working Class Goes to Heaven': Rage against the machine

New Delhi, July 26 -- "In this hell, on this planet, full of hospitals, asylums, cemeteries, factories, barracks and buses, the brain slowly leaves us. It goes on strike." Lulù Massa (Gian Maria... Read More


'The Odyssey' review: Nolan's latest is an epic that's missing some big swings

New Delhi, July 17 -- I'd like to believe John Leguizamo is Eumaeus in The Odyssey because he was Tybalt in Romeo + Juliet (1996). To watch Baz Luhrmann's film as a 12-year-old and hear Shakespeare's ... Read More


'Alpha' review: Alia Bhatt-starrer shows Spyverse needs urgent repairs

New Delhi, July 3 -- The YRF Spyverse is now running on vibes, star cameos and whatever ridiculously catchy new jingle with placeholder English lyrics Sanchit and Ankit Balhara have cooked up. After t... Read More


'The Furious' is a glorious synthesis and an instant martial arts classic

New Delhi, June 28 -- Navin and Wang Wei start off with an action film's version of a meet-cute: a misunderstanding and a fight. They don't yet know they have a common purpose, or that they've been ba... Read More


'Cocktail 2' review: Homi Adajania's film is maddeningly lightweight

New Delhi, June 19 -- Over the past month, a rumour that Rashmika Mandanna and Kriti Sanon were playing a couple in Cocktail 2 caught fire. It grew to the point that the stars were actually asked abou... Read More


'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