‘Passing’ is an exquisite look at the divisiveness of skin color and the painful price humans pay for living out of their skin.
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Sardar Udham is a riveting and stunning story of one of India’s lesser documented revolutionaries. Vicky Kaushal turns in his finest yet.
The Father is a brutal watch. It’s unnerving, painful, and yet hypnotic. And it’s scary as hell. Plus, Anthony Hopkins is devastating.
There’s something intimately familiar and hence moving about Saving Mr. Banks. Plus, there’s Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks.
Bhuj: The Pride of India takes a real-life human interest drama and turns it into listless and disingenuous cinema.
Rojo takes a still, unnerving look at middle-class society’s human reaction to political turmoil.
No matter how its political stance has morphed in a polarised and acidic world, ‘Munich’ is still chillingly relevant.
‘Haseen Dillruba’ is an uneven, ultimately unsatisfying look at fraught relationships. It falls in love with its own twist much too soon, much too deep.
Director Amit Masurkar creates an understated drama about the politics of equilibrium that extracts a deadly price from nature’s finely balanced system.
Writer-director Chaitanya Tamhane delivers a meditative, poignant take on the quest for perfection. We may not find it where we want it.