Features & Comments
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Freda – Fascinating interplay of the personal and the political...July 23 2021
Sarpatta Parambarai: Arya is raging bull in boxing film that leads to predictable goal-post…July 22 2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Women Do Cry is a damning look at patriarchy at Bulgaria…July 19 2021
Toofan: Farhan Akhtar is exceptional as boxer Aziz Ali but the film is not...July 16 2021
Malik: Fahadh Faasil is simply brilliant despite a stretched out story…July 15 2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Jodie Turner-Smith robbed of jewels from hotel room…July 12 2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Director Paul Verhoeven’s lesbian nun drama Benedetta creates a storm…July 11 2021
Collar Bomb: Jimmy Sheirgill starrer begins with a bang and ends in a whimper...July 10 2021
Haseen Dillruba: Vikrant Massey, Taapsee Pannu are compelling in this thriller…July 2 2021
Cold Case: A hotchpotch of a crime thriller that wastes Prithviraj Sukumaran…June 30 2021
Ray: Screen adaptations of the Master’s stories are largely disappointing…June 25 2021
NFDC to present seven projects at Cannes Film Market…June 24 2021
Spike Lee becomes first jury president to feature on Cannes Film Festival poster…June 22 2021
Jagame Thandhiran: Weak script, careless editing make Dhanush-starrer a bore…June 19 2021
Cannes Film Festival: British director Andrea Arnold to head A Certain Regard Jury...June 15 2021
Skater Girl: A village girl who dreams on wheels…June 11 2021
Those Who Wish Me Dead: Angelina Jolie-starrer takes us through raging fire…June 10 2021
Cannes 2021 Selections: Sean Penn, Francois Ozon, Asghar Farhadi in, India absent...June 3 2021
American actress Jodie Foster to get Cannes Honorary Palm dÓr…June 2 2021
The Mauritanian: Tahar Rahim brilliantly captures the anguish at Guantanamo Bay…May 28 2021
The Secrets We Keep: A post-WWII story about trauma...May 21 2021
Cinema Bandi: Honest effort to explore an auto rickshaw driver’s passion for filmmaking…May 14 2021
Cannes 2021: From French Dispatch to Pig, films that may make the cut…May 11 2021
Photo-Prem: A paranoia dealt with little conviction…May 8 2021
Meel Patthar: A journey where every milestone cries in despair…May 6 2021
Lazy camera and writing fail to highlight an important theme…April 30 2021
Cannes Film Festival to open with Annette on July 6…April 19 2021
Ajeeb Daastaans: Four short stories, some with a whiff of freshness…April 16 2021
The Priest: Mammootty plays Sherlock Holmes in a bad script…April 15 2021
Paramapadham Velaiyattu: Trisha shines, but story telling is archaic…April 14 2021
The Big Bull: A cock and bull story overly dramatising a scam...April 9 2021
Irul: Fahadh Faasil plays Mr Broody all over again in a thrilling theme…April 2 2021
The Father: An intensely brilliant Anthony Hopkins walks us through dementia...March 29 2021
Pagglait: Netflix drama is a subtle study of selflessness...March 26 2021
The Illegal: A plot with enormous possibilities is wasted…March 25 2021
Sound of Metal: Riz Ahmed is excellent, but the writing disappoints...March 18 2021
Cherry: A miscast Tom Holland in a film which is unreal in every sense…March 12 2021
Any Day Now: Berlin Film Festival title underlines simple joys of living in uncertain times…March 11 2021
Coming 2 America: Eddie Murphy is fun, but the movie a tad silly…March 6 2021
Allen V. Farrow: The man who gave us magical movies seems dumped…March 1 2021
Theeni, starring Nasser and Ashok Selvan, delights us with its culinary spirit..February 26 2021
Drishyam attracts empathy for Georgekutty, I Care A Lot does not for Marla...February 25 2021
Drishyam 2: Mohanlal sparkles but this sequel is not as gripping as first one…February 19 2021
Live Telecast: Kajal Aggarwal’s film is a tasteless cocktail of TRP and supernatural...February 12 2021
News of the World: Tom Hanks is brilliant as soldier rescuing a little girl from ravages of Civil War...February 12 2021
Palmer: Justin Timberlake starrer is a moving story of how an ex-convict begins to adore a little kid…January 29 2021
Cannes Film Festival announces new dates, but let us keep our fingers crossed...January 28 2021
Cannes Film Festival likely to be delayed till July…January 27 2021
NFDC Film Bazaar: Inkblot knits together the real and imaginary…January 24 2021
NFDC Film Bazaar: Two titles that talk about human struggle…January 21 2021
NFDC Film Bazaar throws up movies on beef ban and trade in mother’s milk…January 18, 2021
One Night in Miami: A riveting chamber pieces about kinship and prejudice…January 15 2021
A power-packed punch at corporatisation of farms…January 14 2021
Film Bazaar to be held virtually from Jan 16…January 11 2021
Maara: R. Madhavan and Shraddha Srinath dazzle in this remake...January 8 2021
Kaagaz: Pankaj Tripathi’s emotive range is laudable in this social documentary…January 7 2021
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The Midnight Sky: George Clooney looks like a glum Santa Claus, does not bring cheer...December 24 2020
Unpaused: Soothe your lockdown blues with innovative storytelling…December 20 2020
Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy out of Oscars International Feature category...December 19 2020
Paava Kadhaigal: Stories of sin traverse a boringly beaten path...December 18 2020
Torbaaz: Sanjay Dutt’s effort to turn a bomb into a ball misfires...December 11 2020
Darbaan: This Rabindranath Tagore drama adaptation is an insipid affair…December 6 2020
Mank: A depressed Hollywood that created a masterpiece called Citizen Kane…December 5 2020
Uncle Frank: A sweet American tale of fetters and freedoms…November 26 2020
The Undoing: Infidelity, lust and murder make this miniseries exhilarating…November 16 2020
Soorarai Pottru: Suriya Starrer has a turbulent flight…November 12 2020
At Tokyo Film Festival, The Old Town Girls fails to rise above the mundane…November 11 2020
At Tokyo Film Festival, The Last Bath explores aunt-nephew relationship with Judgement...November 10 2020
At Tokyo Film Festival, The Real Thing is ‘Teen Diviyan’ Japanese style…November 9 2020
At Tokyo Film Festival, No Choice is a minimalistic and matter-of-fact narrative of a deep malaise…November 6 2020
At Tokyo Film Festival, Come and Go: Wonderful study of inter-racial tensions through gripping stories…November 5 2020
Miss India: Poor script makes Keerthy Suresh film a tedious watch…November 4 2020
At Tokyo Film Festival, Ashes on a Road Trip, subtle but powerful look at how relationships change after tragedy, …November 2 2020
India-born Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy is Canada’s Oscar submission...October 31 2020
Cannes Film Festival readies a contingency plan for 2021 edition…October 29 2020
Faithful: Engaging exploration of Algerian independence movement through an ordinary man…October 23 2020
Putham Pudhu Kaalai: Amazon Prime’s Tamil anthology is remarkable for its emotional quotient...October 16 2020
Bad Boy Billionaires: Netflix tries, but there is nothing new…October 7 2020
Ka Pae Rajasingam: An unimaginable grief perfectly conveyed by Aishwarya Rajesh...October 3 2020
Nishabhdam: R. Madhavan is superb in ghost story which takes midway U-turn…October 2 2020
Tehran: A series that reveals a rather tame spy adventure…September 27 2020
Ratched: Netflix series has eye-catching settings, but fails to make an impact…September 21 2020
The Paramedic: A shoddily scripted Netflix work with sheer cliches…September 18 2020
The Duchess: To create something funny, it slips into highly implausible situations...September 14 2020
Oscars 2024: New rules may be an impediment for the deserving…September 12 2020
Hostages 2: A crime caper that could have sieved off its fat…September 11 2020
V – It keeps running into one blind lane after another…September 5 2020
Italian title to open Venice Film Festival, Indian work in Competition after 19 years...September 2 2020
C U Soon: A weather-beaten subject narrated with amazing imagination…September 1 2020
Prakash Jha’s web series, Aashram, lacks sparkling narrative, reflects poor grip on the medium...August 31 2020
Masaba Masaba: Neena Gupta starrer barely goes beyond the surface…August 29 2020
Coronavirus plays spoilsport to screen sex…August 27 2020
Venice Film Fest to roll with stringent safety protocol…August 22 2020
Project Power: A superman story with profound social message…August 21 2020
Lockup: A murder mystery that slips out of the realm of reality…August 14 2020
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn – Tackles racial intolerance with dignity…August 13 2020
Father Soldier Son: A story that is gripping most of the time...July 23 2020
Greyhound: A stirring sea battle with Tom Hanks in command...July 12 2020
The Old Guard: Dismissing Charlize Theron starrer as yet another superhero stuff will be unfair…July 10 2020
Desperados: It is silly but rollicking comedy…July 10 2020
Perry Mason...June 26 2020
Sweat – A beautifully textured film conveying the angst of modern living…June 24 2020
Penguin — A thriller merely out to turn protagonist into a superwoman...June 19 2020
Cannes Film Festival announces 56 titles, none are Indian…June 4 2020
Ponmagal Vandhal: A superb Jyotika fails to lift an unoriginal plot…May 29 2020
Four Indian titles make it to online We Are One-A Global Film Festival…May 28 2020
Venice will have many obstacles to cross during Coronavirus pandemic…May 26 2020
Joe & The Shawl underlines dogmatism so humorously…May 14 2020
An Enigma called Cannes Film Festival...May 13 2020
It is final, No Cannes this year, at least not in the form we have known…May 11 2020
Are drive-in theatres set to make a comeback amid coronavirus pandemic?...May 7 2020
The Half of It: Where teens messed and missed, raced and risked…May 4 2020
During pandemic, movie producers call camera-lights-action under innovative conditions…May 2 2020
Irrfan Khan — Remembering the humble actor who never shied away from criticism…May 1 2020
Will Jyotika’s Ponmagal Vandhal open on a streaming platform?…April 26 2020
Venice Film Festival scheduled for September, organisers rule out possibility of virtual format…April 18 2020
Will Cannes and Venice collaborate to hold a film festival in September?…April 16 2020
Coronavirus puts a big question mark over Cannes Film Festival…April 14 2020
Cannes Film Festival will not go digital come what may, says Chief Thierry Fremaux…April 9 2020
Corona is the first movie on the current pandemic…April 2 2020
Cannes Film Festival Palace turns into a shelter for the homeless during Coronavirus outbreak...March 28 2020
Red Sea International Film Festival postponed amid Coronavirus scare...March 4 2020
Roman Polanski’s Cesar win sees more protests than appreciation…March 1 2020
Red Sea International Film Festival to kick off with Saudi Arabia’s The Book of Sun...February 17 2020
Roman Holiday, a romantic comedy that never ages…February 14 2020
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