Aan Tiwari honoured with Best Child Actor award for Baal ShivReviews
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Review: 'Ponmagal Vandhal' is mediocre melodrama
The film tries making a strong comment against rape and the sexual abuse of the girl child, which renders a noble intent to the effort.
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Review: 'Betaal': Where are the scares?
The problem with "Betaal" is it tries being too many things. It tries to be a morality tale about modernday urbanisation and greed, as well as a slice of ancient lore serving up every stereotype that has ever defined ‘desi' mumbo jumbo.
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Review: 'Homecoming' 2: Bring Julia Roberts back next season
"Homecoming" hits that hurdle in its second season. It is sleek and still has a quota of suspense, but it is more of the same.
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Review: 'Ghoomketu': The joke's on Bollywood
"Ghoomketu" becomes one of the first Hindi films to go straight to OTT. Which should have made it an ‘event release' of sorts, except one is aware that this is technically not a new film.
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Review: 'The Wrong Missy': Sporadic, silly laughs
It is one of those films you do not mind as it plays out before your eyes, but you have forgotten soon as it is over. "The Wrong Missy" is billed as a rom-com -- not particularly funny, certainly not romantic -- and it does not take you long to decide it is the sort of ‘entertainer' they used to release on the big screen in the nineties.
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Review: 'Paatal Lok': Hellish high
"Paatal Lok" takes its time to draw you into the darkness that defines its essence. Over the first two episodes, we are essentially introduced to characters and the locales where they exist, even as slowburn after-impact quietly builds.
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Review: 'Illegal' needed sharper storytelling
"Illegal" expectedly highlights morality and immorality, right and wrong, but does not dwell upon these things overtly -- which is a good thing.
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Review: 'Into The Night' is a non-stop, cheesy caper
A fatal wave that strikes with sun rays is rapidly spreading across the world, and the infected die almost immediately. Staying away from daylight is the only way to survive.
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Review: 'Hollywood': Bland and Beautiful
The narrative plods forward accounting stories of three young men who get a break at Ernie's station. Jack Castello (David Corenswet) bags a film deal as actor.
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Review: 'Upload': Quirky sci-fi with a twist of satire
"Upload" is a quirky show that takes its time to build up. Despite being conceptually different it may not grip you right away, but if you hang around, the overall deal at the end of 10 episodes is imaginative, intelligent.
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Review: Mrs Serial Killer: Utterly messed-up
"Mrs Serial Killer" aims to be a psycho thriller, and Kunder probably thought of making it because the only film of worth he's ever made so far was "Kriti", a short film that belonged to that genre and garnered much applaud.
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Review: Dangerous Lies reloads '90s B-grade suspense
It's silly suspense drama really, and at less than 100 minutes it's the sort of pulp fiction you would indulgently sit through. "Dangerous Lies" makes no pretence of being anything but a B-movie. Only, it goes about effectively with its business of being cliched.
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Review: 'Never Have I Ever': High School Chronicle
The remarkable Mindy Kaling has co-created a new dramedy, which naturally draws your interest. What you get here isn't pathbreaking stuff, but Kaling's latest effort is spiffy enough in impact to keep you hooked over 10 episodes.
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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.
