‘Chhapaak’ review: Burns Right Through
Reading Time: 4 minutes Director Meghna Gulzar’s steady, empathetic commentary on a burning issue that’s stayed far too long beneath the societal skin, singes that very protective layer.
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‘Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior’ review: A Glorious Spectacle
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior’ is a gloriously entertaining spectacle. History students and crocodile lovers, beware.
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‘Dolemite Is My Name’ review: Reinvention Is the Game
Reading Time: 4 minutes Raunchy, loud, boisterous, and funky. That’s the name of the blaxploitation game, and Eddie Murphy’s is at the top of his effing game.
‘Us’ review: The Horrors of the Unprivileged
Reading Time: 3 minutes Writer-director Jordan Peele uses smoke, mirrors, and blood to keep us unnerved. But it’s what he shows us in the mirror that’s most horrifying.
‘Marriage Story’ review: The Cons and Cons of Separating
Reading Time: 4 minutes Falling in love is easy. Getting married isn’t too tough. Staying together is. Getting separated is an operation. Without the anesthetic.
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ review: Tarantino’s Coming of Age
Reading Time: 4 minutes Quentin Tarantino loves his movies. He loves Hollywood. And like all of us about so many things in our lives, he wishes things would have turned out differently.
‘Asuran’ review: Of Land Grabbing and Oppression
Reading Time: 4 minutes Director Vetrimaaran shows what it takes to unleash the whiplash anger of the exploited. And what happens when it does explode. You have been warned.
‘The Irishman’ review: A Ruminating and Poignant Tale
Reading Time: 6 minutes Martin Scorsese takes a languid, mellow, and poignant look at a life that was all powerful and raging bull in the past and now hovers within a knowing sigh. It could well be about each one of us and each of our countries, right now.