Reviews
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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.
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Review: 'Angrezi Medium': Irrfan, Deepak Dobriyal shine in aimless film
A couple of great performances can actually turn an utterly mediocre film into okay stuff, you realise watching Irrfan and Deepak Dobriyal in "Angrezi Medium".
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Review: 'Guilty': Predictability over purpose
"Guilty", touted as the brainchild of an all-women creative, tries discussing the conversation through a story of rape allegation set against the backdrop of MeToo, which makes it relevant.
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Review: 'Baaghi 3': The same old Tiger trick
"Baaghi 3" is all about cashing in on a ready fan base that is still game to relish a readymade formula.
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Review: 'Onward': Sweet Spirited but with oft-seen visuals
There are moments in life when you wish you could bring someone down from heaven, spend the day with them just one more time, give them a hug, kiss them goodbye, or hear their voice again. One more chance to say: "I love you!"
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Review: 'The Invisible Man': Astutely reinvented and relevant
Writer-Director Leigh Whannell's "The Invisible Man" is a science-fiction horror thriller. It is contemporary, relevant and a completely reinvented adaptation of HG Wells' novel of the same name and a reboot of "The Invisible Man" film series.