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Oldboy (2003) Review – Revenge Has Never Looked This Beautiful or Hurt This Much
★★★★★ Our Rating: 9/10 There is a moment, roughly halfway through Oldboy, when you realise the film you are watching…
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Read MoreOldboy (2003) Review – Revenge Has Never Looked This Beautiful or Hurt This Much
Bol (2011) Review – Shoaib Mansoor’s Furious, Flawed Plea to Speak Up
★★★★☆ Our Rating: 8/10 The title is an instruction: Bol means “speak.” Any serious Bol review has to begin with…
Khuda Kay Liye (2007) Review – The Film That Restarted Pakistani Cinema
★★★★☆ Our Rating: 8/10 To write an honest Khuda Kay Liye review, you have to remember what Pakistani cinema looked…
Lucifer (2019) Review – Mohanlal’s Shadow King Rules a Stylish Political Thriller
★★★★☆ Our Rating: 7.5/10 Every Lucifer review has to reckon with two films at once: the political thriller Murali Gopy…
Premam (2015) Review – Three Loves, One Boy, and a Generation’s Favourite Romance
★★★★☆ Our Rating: 8.5/10 Some films succeed. A smaller number become a season in people’s lives. Any honest Premam review…
Ponniyin Selvan: Part I (2022) Review – Mani Ratnam’s Majestic Chola Epic Earns Its Crown
★★★★☆ Our Rating: 8.5/10 Some films are adaptations; this one is an inheritance. Kalki Krishnamurthy’s five-volume novel Ponniyin Selvan, serialised…
Leo (2023) Review – Vijay’s Fiercest Performance in a Tale of Two Halves
★★★★☆ Our Rating: 7/10 Of all the films in director Lokesh Kanagaraj’s crime universe, Leo, released on 19 October 2023,…
Pushpa 2: The Rule (2024) Review – Allu Arjun Rules a Spectacle Bigger Than Its Story
★★★★☆ Our Rating: 7.5/10 Few sequels arrive carrying expectations like this one. Pushpa: The Rise (2021) turned a red sandalwood…
Kalki 2898 AD (2024) Review – A Dazzling Myth-Sci-Fi Epic That Stumbles, Then Soars
★★★★☆ Our Rating: 7.5/10 Indian cinema has attempted big science fiction before, and it has attempted the Mahabharata many times,…
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) Review – The Romance That Refused to End
★★★★★ Our Rating: 9/10 Some films are released. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was installed — in cinemas, in wedding playlists,…