Reading Time: 7 minutes The second season ups the ante in a taut outing where everyone’s struggling to figure out their own space. Plus, it raises some questions about the art of making political thrillers and make up.
Category Archive: Crime
Reading Time: 5 minutes Director Dileesh Pothan uses sly machinations to create a tight, moody drama that’s a daydreamer’s nightmare.
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘The Serpent’ is a slick-fest, riding on some terrific performances, an uneasy score, and a time-jumping story-telling technique. Like its subject, it throws you off and then seduces you.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Orson Welles’ vision for this classic-noir comes alive in a stunning blu-ray transfer. It’s a tragedy he wasn’t around to see his vision redeemed.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Creators Dennis Kelly and Felis Barrett create a stunning, psychedelic canvas that covers grief, manipulation, and love, bloodied by the shredding machines for all ages: power and control.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Writer-director Jeethu Joseph deconstructs his totem movie’s premise to create a gripping drama that thrills when you least expect it.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Director Kunal Kohli comes up with an amateurish and tedious take on love and espionage. The poetry angle doesn’t help one bit.
Reading Time: 4 minutes From an insipid plot to one that races into your heart to another that makes you look inside it, three reviews together.
Reading Time: 6 minutes From the splash of acid to acidic wit, from a hyperkinetic trial to virtual thrills, from old-fashioned murder to bloody folklore, 2020 movies slapped it all on.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The top TV shows for 2020, the year where even the fact that you could watch TV was a top reason to be on the top list.