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The Cannes Film Festival poster is here

Maidaan…Match of fiery footballers

Honorary Palme d’Or for Studio Ghibli at Cannes

Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjab’s legendary singer

Is Cannes Film Festival heavily tilted towards English language fare this time?

Two Indian films at Cannes this year, and both by women directors

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis at Cannes

Kevin Costner film at Cannes 2024

The Goat Life

Cannes Film Festival to Open with The Second Act

Inspector Rishi..The woods are dark and scary

Patna Shuklaa…A courtroom drama headlined by Raveena Tandon

What is running for Cannes 2024

Lootere…Pirates and their plots

Art of Love, an easy watch on a lazy evening

Diaries From Lebanon…Compelling watch

The Stranger’s Case: Refugees and their horrific plight

Madhavan: Myriad masks

The Zone of Interest deserves the Oscar

Shaitaan…A chilling Madhavan

Oppenheimer and the Oscars

Operation Valentine…visually appealing but lacks punch

Canadian director Xavier Nolan to head Cannes’ Un Certain Regard jury

Anatomy of a Fall… screenplay shines

Society of the Snow…a horrific tragedy

Romance and hearbreak collide in appealing series, One Day

The New Look explores Dior-Chanel rivalry with flair

In The Belly Of A Tiger…From Berlin

Siren… with Jayam Ravi and Keerthi Suresh

After 13 years, Sharmila Tagore steps under arc lamps

Captain Miller: A compelling social drama

Bhakshak…Exposing the society’s evils

Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen

Elizabeth Taylor: New BBC series

India feature documentary in the Oscars race

The Iron Claw: A punch to the gut and chock full of tragedy

Feeding Tomorrow — A powerful documentary

Alain Delon…Once a great actor and star, now living a miserable life

Vijay Sethupathi and Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas…An Andhadhun rush but not the high

Foe stumbles despite star performances

First We Bombed New Mexico

Killer Soup, Manoj Bajpayee, Konkana Sen Sharma impress in this meal

Martin Scorsese to make a 80-minute long movie on Jesus Christ

Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom fails to make a splash

Dammi

Buckle up for a spectacular ride in Ferrai

Mandoob: Riyadh is a visual delight

Woman of the Hour: a haunting directorial debut

Maestro is a brilliant biopic

Italian film on domestic violence, There’s Still Tomorrow, proves a hit

Greta Gerwig to chair Cannes Film Festival jury in 2024

Nocturnal Burger: India’s live action short film for the Oscars

Mast Mein Rehne Ka

Naga Chaitanya-starrer Dhootha

Ferrari to close Red Sea Film Festival

Nyad is a fascinating watch on one woman’s unexpected grit and determination

Priscilla, a look at life with Elvis Presley

Europe dominates Oscar submissions

Kennedy — A huge disappointment

Derek Malcolm and Mumbai Film Festival

Awareness: a convoluted science-fiction thriller leaves more questions than answers

Jordon’s Oscar submission Inshallah A Boy

Tiger Nageswara Rao loses focus and wanders all over the place

Lupin 3 sees the gentleman thief return to Paris

Prasanna Vithanage’s Paradise

Khufiya…A spy story

The Equalizer 3…A fantastic Denzel Washington

Love at First Sight, forgettable

The Continental….Disappointing

Mark Antony….What a disaster

Bambai Meri Jaan, Kay Kay Menon steals the show

Paradise is Burning is a poignant potrayal of three sisters

Origin, first ever African American movie in Venice competition

Kushi — Little to offer

Love-All — a sports drama

Venice Film Festival begins today with Oscar hopefuls and controversial directors

Netflix thriller Who Is Erin Carter? falls flat

Stars at Venice 80

King of Kotha, over-ambitious 

Depp V. Heard…Nothing new

Guns & Gulaabs, a shoddy series on Netflix

The Deepest Breath, a risky free diving

Fisk, A witty legal drama

Meg 2-The Trench

Controversial Venice Line-Up

Challengers withdrawn from Venice

The Covenant explores loyalty in war-torn Afghanistan

Hollywood strike may impact Venice Film Festival

Survival of the Thickest is a welcome women-led comedy

Venice Film Festival jury

Wham!

Ferrari may compete at Venice Film Festival

Challengers to open Venice Film Festival

Hijack, mid-air drama with Idris Elba

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny

Lust Stories 2

Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five novels to be a BBC mini-series

Tiku Weds Sheru

A Beautiful Life tells a time-worn story

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Arnold tells the almost unbelievable story of an action hero

South Korean police probing cinema box-office manipulation

Where the Tracks End

Bread and Roses spotlights Taliban’s treatment of women

Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, How Do You Live

Palme d’Or and Cannes Film Festival 

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City at Cannes

Glamour and Cannes

City on Fire on Apple+TV

Transatlantic on Netflix is a fascinating WWII drama

Jude Law wore smelly perfume in Firebrand at Cannes

Killers of the Flower Moon director Martin Scorsese nervous about Ukraine

The Zone of Interest is not a museum piece

The Zone of  Interest and Cannes 2023

Homecoming and Cannes 2023

Michael Douglas and Cannes Film Festival

Johnny Depp’s Jeane du Barry opens Cannes

Ken Loach to take his last movie The Old Oak to Cannes

Reading Lolita in Tehran and Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival to honour Michael Douglas

Citadel tailored for Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

Netflix’s Chupa a kids’ adventure

Elemental to close Cannes

Catherine Deneuve is the Cannes poster girl

Kanu Behl’s Agra to play at Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes

Johnny Depp’s opening film at Cannes creates controversy 

Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy to be part of the upcoming Cannes 2023

Cannes Selections

Pedro Almodovar to be at Cannes with Strange Way of Life

French director accused of assaulting journalist

Jeanne Du Barry’s French historical drama to open Cannes Film Festival

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon to screen at Cannes 2023

Murder Mystery 2 has Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston back in action

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to be remade

I Am Georgina

Faraway

Boston Strangler

Cannes 2023 probables

Iconic Carlton Hotel reopens to add sparkle to the coming Festival

Aftersun, capturing parent-child relationship perfectly

India and the Oscars

Rana Naidu has all the feel of a Telugu drama

Gulmohar a great family drama

Ruben Ostlund to chair Cannes jury 2023

Cocaine Bear

Unlocked, Netflix Korean drama is stylish

Movies will never disappear, says Berlin jury president actress Kristin Stewart

The Martha Mitchell Effect is a compelling Oscar runner on the Watergate scandal

All Quiet on the Western Front

Jafar Panahi walks out of prison

The Elephant Whisperers is a heart-warming joy to watch

Jaanbaaz Hindustan Ke

Jafar Panahi may be out of jail

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Menu

Alice, Darling

Trial by Fire

The Good Boss

Red Sea: Humour and hallucination combine in Saudi Arabia’s Oscar submission Raven Song

Red Sea: Valley Road is a delightful dramatic comedy with heart

Lady Chatterley’s Lover on Netflix

A Summer in Boujad

Next Sohee

At Red Sea, Harka takes a disturbing look at Tunisia’s tragedies

Gurinder Chadha at Red Sea

At Red Sea, Fatih Akin’s Rheingold

At Red Sea Film Festival, Last Film Show

At Red Sea Film Festival, The Banshees of Inisherin

At Red Sea Film Festival, Blonde director says he was pleased his movie outraged Americans

At Red Sea Film Festival, Akshay Kumar says he will make a movie on sex education

At Red Sea Film Festival, Sharon Stone says Basic Instinct destroyed her peace of mind

Red Sea title Shimoni is both devastating and meaningful

What’s Love Got To Do With It at Red Sea Film Festival is a bit disappointing

Red Sea Film Festival opens with Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got To Do With It

India Lockdown: Madhur Bhandarkar brings back  horrors of pandemic, but a bit late in the day

Khakee:The Bihar Chapter

Oliver Stone to head Red Sea Film Festival jury

Shah Rukh Khan to be honoured at Red Sea International Film Festival

Is That Black Enough For You?

Spirited on Apple TV+ is a musical bonanza

Jafar Panahi’s No Bears seems to have seen the present Iranian upheaval coming

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me — An honest look at her dark moments

Enola Holmes 2, a swashbuckling adventure

Opium and the Tokyo Film Festival

Spanish rural thriller, The Beasts, clinches three top awards at Tokyo

Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got To Do With It? to open Second Red Sea Film Festival on December 1

Tokyo Film Festival: Fragments of the Last Will a true story of Japanese soldier who suffered Russian brutality

Tokyo Film Festival all set for grand opening today with Fragments 0f the Last Will

The Redeem Team….All about American basketball

Shantaram: A messy take on a foreigner’s take on India

Tokyo Film Festival Honours

Amsterdam

Tokyo 2022: Aman Sachdeva’s Opium seems like an exciting cocktail

Ponniyin Selvan: A complex plot

Sidney: A moving documentary on a great actor who struggled to get to the top

Babli Bouncer — with Tamannaah

Two Indian films at Tokyo Film Festival

Dirty Difficult Dangerous at Venice tells a poignant love story in Beirut

Tokyo Film Festival to open with prisoner of war drama, Fragments of the Last Will

Venice Golden Lion winner, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed profiles artist’s activism

Jogi, an emotion-driven plot on the anti-Sikh riots, 1984

Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde is hugely exploitative

Other People’s Children at Venice

Blonde in Venice 2022

The Son at Venice Film Festival is powerful and award worthy

Don’t Worry Darling at Venice 2022 resonates with today’s world

Argentina 1985, a powerful courtroom drama at Venice 2022

Syrian movie Nezouh delights Venice Film Festival

Venice 2022: Penelope Cruz headlines Immensity, a film about domestic abuse 

Venice 2022: Bones And All plots cannibalism

Venice Film Festival kicks in with White Noise

Bad Sisters is black humour at its best

Venice red carpet protest against Jafar Panahi’s arrest

Vikram Vedha teaser: First impression

Streaming sites sprint, theatres crawl

American director Walter Hill to be feted at Venice

Five Days at Memorial replicates the horrors of Hurricane Katrina

Viruman…Disappointing

Netflix’s Keep Breathing is a survivalist story that lacks drama

Blonde at Venice will have something to offend everybody

Light & Magic

Venice lineup — All about Iran and Netflix

White Noise to open Venice

Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi leaves too many unanswered questions

The Gray Man: Dhanush takes on Ryan Gosling

The Sea Beast is thrilling

Hollywood actress Julianne Moore to head Venice Film Festival jury

Jane Austen’s Persuasion: Dakota Johnson is brilliant

Hello, Goodbye and Everything In between is a surprisingly mature teen rom-com

The Forgiven with Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain

Woody Allen at 86

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect —- A disappointing debut from R. Madhavan

Love & Gelato is a sweet, endearing romp through Rome

Elvis: Baz Luhrmann’s biopic steers clear of the shadows

Vikrant Massey sparkles in Forensic

El Gouna Film Festival cancelled this year

Halftime sincerely captures Jennifer Lopez’s highs and lows

O2, Nayanathara in a disappointing work

Boman Irani is compelling in his OTT debut, Masoom

Hustle, basketball fans in for a treat

Ashkal, Cannes’ Tunisian title is unnerving but a little bizarre

Vikram disappoints

The Cannes-do spirit

Venice Film Festival to honour Catherine Deneuve

Top Gun: Maverick at Cannes 2022

Cannes 2022 prizes

Elvis at Cannes

Pakistan debuts at Cannes

Pakistan’s Joyland at Cannes 2022

India’s All That Breathes plays at Cannes

Triangle of Sadness is a full frontal attack on the super rich

David Cronenberg calls US insane

Holy Spider

A Perfect Pairing

Cannes arrives with two shockers

Holy Spider at Cannes is provocative

Thamp actor Jalaja walks Cannes red carpet

At Cannes 2022, Boy from Heaven director says his love for Egypt is unrequited

Cannes, India-Australia joint venture The Laugh of Lakshmi announced

Cannes, James Gray on the world today

12th Man; Mohanlal in an underwritten role

At Cannes, Nicole Kidman missing from Tom Cruise’s career reel

At Cannes, Tom Cruise promotes cinema and his daredevilry

Chinese animated movie pulled out of Directors’ Fortnight at the last minute

Witty zombie French film sets Cannes rolling

Cannes Film Festival kicks off with zombie movie Final Cut

Cannes Fest chief reacts to India being the Country of Honour

No party for Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick at Cannes

Oussekine: A immensely sad story of racist brutality

Marilyn Monroe biopic misses out on Cannes

Cannes to screen Ukrainian film

Indian film stars always hit the red carpet at Cannes

Cannes says no to Russian journalists

Along for the Ride creates magic fantasy with young romance

Thar: A convoluted drama

Ray’s Pratidwandi and Aravindan’s Thamp at Cannes

Tokyo Vice: American reporter’s tale of crime underworld

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes offers nothing new

Cannes changes opening movie title

Cannes: A history of sex and violence

Deepika Padukone now on Cannes Film Festival jury

Gaslit: Julia Roberts plays a whistle blower who brought down a President

Pakistani movie Joyland at Cannes

Indian documentary All That Breathes at Cannes

Cannes Film Festival pays tribute to The Truman Show

Death on the Nile…A mysterious trip

Mai-A grieving mother turns Miss Marple

Cannes Film Festival Line Up

Cannes Film Festival and the buzz around it

Dasvi: A no holds-barred political satire

Elvis to arrive at Cannes 2022

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick to premiere at Cannes 

Morbius is a stylish but insipid vampire adventure

Sharmaji Namkeen…Eminently watchable

Bridgerton Season Two: Love clashes with social duty in 1800s London

CODA — A girl in dilemma

83: Many years on India’s World Cup win is still electrifying to watch

Marilyn Monroe biopic in the making

Drive My Car is aching emotional journey of loss and love

Cinema is becoming morally debase

Jalsa, a sheer disaster!

Worst Roommate Ever…Harrowing Netflix series lacks feeling

Dhanush disappoints in an absurd drama, Maaran

The Adam Project is all about time travel

Pieces of Her: Laborious…

Cannes Film Festival may not welcome Russian delegations this year

The Fallout: A piercing look at a teen’s turmoil after a school shutout

The Fame Game: Diluting the thrill

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing — a hard-hitting documentary on corporate greed

#Homecoming is a delightful delve in the past on a Durga Puja night

Inventing Anna: Vicious and vulnerable she enslaved NY society

The Tinder Swindler: A life online that can spell doom

The Worst Person in the world..Julie’s confusion

Gehraiyaan…Too tame for a triangular romance

Cannes titles get Oscar nods in seven categories

My Best Friend Anne Frank is a tale of enduring friendship

Looop Lapeta…Remaking a German classic, Run Lola Run

Three Songs for Benazir is a tender lover story

Casablanca at 80/Curtiz

Perfect Strangers: Secrets and lies are served up for dinner 

Munich – The Edge of War, a handsome spy drama

A Hero, Asghar Farhadi’s incisive comment on Iranian society

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Denzel Washington gives a haunting performance

Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein — A muddled Netflix series

Four to Dinner, a clumsy rom-com

Adoor’s Swayamvaram is 50 years

Stay Close

Sharaf, a telling look at prison corruption

Murder at Teesri Manzil 302

Emily in Paris Season Two…Characters come alive

Ten sparkling titles on OTT in 2021

Rupture: A Saudi film an abstract painting on the big screen

The Lost Daughter

House of Gucci, style and scheming

Decoupled: This Netlix series is fun

420 IPC falters

The Exam

Casablanca Beats

Aranyak

Farha

Money Heist — The last episodes

Bob Biswas: Abhishek Bachchan plays a softer version of Kahaani’s deadly assassin

The Power of the Dog… Jane Campion is out with a covertly brutal cowboy drama

Drushyam 2, Telugu remake is not exciting

Film Bazaar: Bitter Sweet, a bitter truth about sugarcane industry

Film Bazaar: Withering and Alpha Beta Gamma are acceptance and reconciliation

Film Bazaar: Rhoya and Bena are all about dreams

Film Bazaar: Geometry Box and You Changed Me, two movies explore feelings and attitude 

Dhamaka, a pacy though exaggerated thriller

Red Sea Film Festival will have 16 titles competing for the top award

Tick, tick…Boom! A magical mix of great acting, songs

Red Sea Film Festival to honour two women directors

Extraordinary global storytelling at Red Sea Film Festival

Amira — A father, daughter relationship explored against the backdrop of the Palestinian problem

Malayalam movie Paka at Red Sea Film Festival

Arisaka at Tokyo Film Festival

Hommage at Tokyo Film Festival

Payback at Tokyo Film Festival

The Dawning of the Day at Tokyo Film Festival

The Four Walls at Tokyo Film Festival

Jai Bhim: A fascinating story about Justice Chandru and his fight to help a poor Irula woman

At Tokyo Film Festival, Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho is a delightful opener

The Manor: A horror show that veers off course

Dybbuk: Emraan Hashmi headlines a horror set in Mauritius

Feathers: Award winning Egyptian film is dark and brilliant

Sardar Udham, Recreating the horrors of the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre

Udanpirappe, Jyotika-starrer is sorely disappointing

The Rapist, one of Aparna Sen’s finest, which premiered at Busan 

Bhramam, Now a Malayalam version of Andhadhun

Dune — A nuanced science fiction thriller

No Time To Die: Daniel Craig’s swan song as James Bond is thrilling and touching

Scenes from a Marriage

Sunny, Jayasurya film falls flat

Maestro, replicating Andhadhun

Kate, high on action, low on innovation

The Mad Women’s  Ball, A brutal look at women in a psychiatric institution

The Voyeurs aims to be a Hitchcock thriller, Rear Window, but is far from it

Mumbai Diaries 26/11

Once Upon A Time in Calcutta at Venice 2021

Retelling Cinderella

Helmet, a condom story gone haywire

Roberto Benigni charms Venice Film Festival opening

The Green Knight, Dev Patel is fabulous

Venice Film Festival charmers

The Empire– Babur’s life retold in a disappointing way

Kissing Booth 3 – A teen rom-com that finally feels mature

#Home…A crowded canvas that dilutes the story of a technologically challenged man.

Obama: In pursuit of a More Perfect Union — long but worth a watch

Netrikann

Shershaah, an ode to a film star, not a Kargil War hero

Cannes opener, Annette, trifle frustrating

Kuruthi, a Malayalam movie examines inclusiveness

Dial 100

Pedro Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers to open Venice

At Venice, Once Upon A Time In Calcutta

The Last Letter from Your Lover

At Cannes, Freda from Haiti

Sarpatta Parambarai

Naomi Osaka, Tennis star

Women Do Cry, at Cannes

Europa, Cannes film is a distressing document of migration

At Cannes, Oliver Stone’s new documentary on Kennedy murder

Toofan, an exceptional Farhan Akhtar cannot save this work on boxing

Malik, a superb Fahadh Faasil in a stretched out story

At Cannes, Matt Damon plays a desperate father in Stllwater

Wild Allies, the story of falconry in Saudi Arabia

At Cannes, Sean Penn rips apart Donald Trump post his Flag Day

At Cannes, British actress robbed of her jewels from her hotel room

At Cannes, Rehane Maryam Noor from Bangladesh is a powerful watch

Paul Verhoeven at Cannes Film Festival, with Benedetta

Collar Bomb, begins with a bang, ends in a whimper

Benedetta at Cannes is provocative

Jane by Charlotte at Cannes

The rebellious Olivia de Havilland at Cannes

Spike Lee at Cannes hopes blacks will no longer be treated as animals

Indian work-in-progress documentary running for Cannes Market prize

Annette to open Cannes Film Festival

Haseen Dillruba, one of the better Netflix titles in recent months

The Ice Road: Liam Neeson turns hero to rescue trapped miners

Cold Case, wasted Prithviraj in a hotchpotch skull riddle

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Ray, Netflix anthology is passe

NFDC to present seven projects at Cannes Market

Spike Lee on Cannes Film Festival poster

Fatherhood, Kevin Hart in a new form

Jagame Thandhiram, a crashing bore

Lupin season two, magical

Skater Girl, when a village girl dreams on wheels

Those Who Wish Me Dead, Angelina Jolie takes us through fire

Breaking Boundaries: A desperate call for action to save Earth

Lisey’s Story, more confusing than frightening

Cannes 2021 selections

Jodie Foster to get honorary Cannes Palm dÓr

Panic, teens play a mindless game

The Mauritanian, capturing the anguish of Guantanamo Bay

Halston, the ups and downs of a forgotten fashion icon

The Secrets We Keep, a post-WWII drama about trauma

Oxygen, Netflix drama takes the breath away

Cinema Bandi; an honest effort

Mare of Easttown, Kate Winslet exudes quiet brilliance

Cannes 2021: What is in the running

Photo-Prem, a paranoia dealt with little conviction

Meel Patthar, where every milestone cries in despair

Children of the Enemy, a grandfather’s desperate search

The Disciple, lazy camera and writing

Promising Young Woman, an Oscar-tipped performance by Carey Mulligan

Cannes Film Festival to open with Annette

Ajeeb Daastaans, gripping and refreshing

Mammootty’s The Priest, and what a slipshod plot

Paramapadham Velaiyattu

Minari, an American dream

The Big Bull, all about a stockbroking scam

Oscar runner Time

Nomadland, visually stunning, Oscar-tipped

Irul, a thrilling theme

The Father, an intensely brilliant Anthony Hopkins walks us through dementia

Pagglait, subtle and lovely

The Illegal, dull and dreary

My Octopus Teacher takes marine documentaries to new emotional depths

Bombay Begums misses the mark

Brother’s Keeper, a Berlin title depicting boarding school brutality in Turkey

Sound of Metal, Riz Ahmed gets an Oscar nod, but the writing disappoints

Cherry: A miscast Tom Holland and a film that is unreal in every sense

Any Day Now, Berlin Film Festival

Memory Box, a haunting look at love and and loss, at Berlin Film Festival 

Coming 2 America, Eddie Murphy is fun, but the film is a tad silly

Namaste Wahala, a cross-cultural effort misfires

The Girl on the Train goes off-track

Allen V. Farrow…A brutal look

Theeni, a pleasing work

Drishyam 2 and I Care A Lot

Drishyam 2, not as exciting as the first one

Penguin Bloom sees Naomi Watts in a poignant comeback

Framing Britney Spears, the tale of a shackled life

Live Telecast is a tasteless work

News of the World – A brilliant Tom Hanks

200 Meters, a family divided by a political wall

The Man Who Sold His Skin follows a provocative path

The Dig, a charming story about a historical find on the eve of World War II

Palmer, a moving story of an ex-convict and a kid he begins to adore

Cannes announces new dates in July, but let us keep our fingers crossed

Cannes may be delayed till July

NFDC Film Bazaar: Inkblot

NFDC Film Bazaar: Two titles that talk about human struggle

What Killed Maradona: A life of glory that came with pain

NFDC Film Bazaar screens movies on beef ban, etc

Night Stalker — The Hunt for a Serial Killer

One Night in Miami, riveting

Bhoomi, fight against corporatisation 

Lupin is thrilling to the core

Film Bazaar to begin on January 16

Pieces of a Woman, grief at its most raw

Maara dazzles

Kaagaz, Pankaj Tripathi is laudable 

Sylvie’s Love, beautiful retro romance

Netflix Regency romp, Bridgerton, big on style, small on substance

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