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Vasan Bala’s ‘Jigra’, starring Alia Bhatt, has its moments, but it’s confused whether it wants to be a classy drama or a pulpy thriller

The drama portion of ‘Jigra’ has no tension, and the thriller part of the film lacks excitement. The movie moves with mechanical efficiency, and very little feels inspired.

Vasan Bala’s ‘Jigra’, starring Alia Bhatt, has its moments, but it’s confused whether it wants to be a classy drama or a pulpy thriller Read More

Vikramaditya Motwane’s ‘CTRL’, on Netflix, is a well-made, well-acted thriller whose human moments work better than the overarching (and over-familiar) cautionary tale

CTRL works overall, but it does not carry a sense of revelation that makes you slap your forehead. Here’s the issue: We already know that we are controlled

Vikramaditya Motwane’s ‘CTRL’, on Netflix, is a well-made, well-acted thriller whose human moments work better than the overarching (and over-familiar) cautionary tale Read More

Namrata Rao’s ‘Angry Young Men’, on Prime Video, is an easy watch, a nostalgic look at the Salim-Javed story, but there’s not much real insight

The best parts are the ones where they talk about their process… It’s interesting to know that Salim usually came up with the storylines, Javed’s strength was dialogue,

Namrata Rao’s ‘Angry Young Men’, on Prime Video, is an easy watch, a nostalgic look at the Salim-Javed story, but there’s not much real insight Read More

Amar Kaushik’s entertaining ‘Stree 2’ gives us exactly what we go in for: a silly ghost story with more laughs than scares

The chief pleasure of the ‘Stree’ films is watching Rajkummar Rao, Aparshakti Khurana, Pankaj Tripathi, and the delightful Abhishek Banerjee. Whoever thought of throwing in these four together

Amar Kaushik’s entertaining ‘Stree 2’ gives us exactly what we go in for: a silly ghost story with more laughs than scares Read More

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