Reading Time: 5 minutes Director Vikramaditya Motwane’s mad and zippy one-night ride works at so many levels, it’s mad. About movies.
Category Archive: Crime
Reading Time: 6 minutes Director Hansal Mehta spins a fantastic web of financial crimes and manipulation, putting out one of this year’s best.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Director Rob Minkoff holds a bag full of twists, mysteries, and crude comic. In other words, a mixed bag.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Debut director Honey Trehan lays out his movie on a multi-hued slow burn track that, as long as it stays on it, singes and haunts.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘Breathe: Into the Shadows’ takes an elaborate, weary, textbook approach to the serial-killer genre. You’ll be excused for yawning.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Director Cory Finley spins a tight tale about a true-life embezzlement scandal that throws light on an education system that encourages top rankings for schools at a price no one knows they’re paying. Or do they? Oh yeah, and Hugh Jackman shines in a layered act.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The discomfiting yet must-watch ‘Paatal Lok’ takes ‘Chinatown’, Indian societal rot, and other fetid ingredients, and hammers them all to pulp. Best not to hold your popcorn tub in its midst.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘The Outsider’ is a take on Stephen King’s novel by the same name. And while there’s plenty of chills and horror in quiet doses, it is what that hovers over it in its strangely tenderly terrorizing take that’s become so apt in these strange times: grief and the fear of loss.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The top TV shows of 2019.
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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.
