Reviews
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Review: The Silence Of The Marsh: Intriguing but imperfect
You would love or hate this one largely depending on how you take the ending. For most parts watching the film, you gather that "The Silence Of The Marsh" is about a crime novelist who resorts to crime to draw inspiration for his stories.
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Review: 'The Plagues Of Breslau': Graphic gore
Thriller lovers need to approach this Polish film keeping as much in mind because, to begin with, "The Plagues Of Breslau" is a celebration of extreme gore.
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Review: Extraction: Old-school action fest
The film is unabashedly uni-dimensional in situations, plot and characters despite a backdrop that could have been tapped to create a smart socio-political thriller.
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Review: 'Sergio' struggles to hold attention
"Sergio" stars Brazilian ace Wagner Moura -- that's Pablo Escobar in "Narcos" for you -- with Cuban origin actress Ana de Armas. You've seen her knock on the doors of global stardom with "Knives Out" so far, and she is the next Bond girl in "No Time To Die".
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Review: 'Girlfriend Chor' is an easy, breezy watch
The focus remains on hearty humour, Jotwani and team have done adequately to that extent.
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Review: Four More Shots Please Season 2: A happier high
There is an element of simplistic joy that drives "Four More Shots Please", and it's a quality that endears you to the show.
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Review: Hasmukh: Sloppy script killed the fun
Vir Das goes for a double with "Hasmukh", a black comedy in 10 episodes that lets him play out a role in a fictional set-up, and yet remain a stand-up comic.
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Review: Earth And Blood: Loaded with action cliches
For an 80-minute action drama, "Earth And Blood" seems like a patchwork of genre-specific scenes set up to decidedly arrive at a set-piece climax of violence.
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Review: School Life: Feel-good chaos
This French-Arabic film, originally titled "La Vie Scolaire", draws its context from the racial factor of the locality in which it is based -- Saint-Denis, which is a Paris suburb mostly populated by migrants of colour.
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Review: Love Wedding Repeat: Boredom trumps humour
The film is pitched as a rom-com that tries serving up random slapstick to keep moving a very basic plot.
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Review: The Raikar Case: Soap opera suspense
This one, you get the feeling right at the onset, will very much be a 'desi' mystery - not too heavy, but loaded with the vintage played-to-gallery burst of emotions.
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Review: Tales From The Loop: Sci-fi with humane touch
The series allots more focus on human drama using that idea, than letting the sci-fi quotient fully take centrestage.
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Review: 'She' slips into a zone of plasticity
"She" keeps you guessing right till the end, though probably not in the intended way.
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Review: The Valhalla Murders: Bingeworthy Nordic noir
Twisted Nordic noir gets a wry edge of humour in this Icelandic whodunit series that should satiate your binging urges if you love your mysteries served dark, but without too many complex subtexts.
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Review: 'Special Ops' is slowburn spy drama
"Special Ops" is a lot like "Baby", in the way it follows a team of special agents over a period of time as they set out to track a terror mastermind.
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Review: Bhaukaal': Hinterland mayhem gets Over The Top rehash
"Bhaukaal" reloads the formula of hinterland swag soaked in bloody mayhem, to unfold its story of Hindi heartland lawlessness.
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Review: 'Asur': Gritty, gripping, gruesome
Creator Gaurav Shukla and his co-writers Vinay Chhawal and Niren Bhatt have toyed with the concepts of science and spirituality to craft a modernday crime thriller.
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Review: 'Bloodshot': Engaging yet lacks soul
"Bloodshot" is an origin story of the eponymous superhero, a popular Valiant Comics Character, and revenge propels its plot.
