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It Ends With Us Struggles to Balance the Lighter and Darker Sides of Romance
The big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling book It Ends With Us deals with heavy themes like domestic violence and childhood traumas, except it fails to do so. That's the first line you need to know before you hit the…
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The Witcher Season 3: Incoherent Storytelling Leads to an Unsatisfactory Conclusion
Netflix’s adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy series The Witcher started in a thrilling, if not a bit unpolished way, introducing Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), a mutant who hunts monsters and gets entangled with Princess Ciri (Freya Allan), a powerful…
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Laal Singh Chaddha: The Adaptation of a Classic Gone Horribly Wrong
Before I start this review, I really think I need to clarify some aspects. Firstly, I am a huge Aamir Khan fan. I have thoroughly enjoyed most of his films, and I have tremendous respect for his film choices –…
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Halo Tries a Bold Approach with its TV Adaptation that Doesn’t Entirely Work in its First Season
Halo languished long in development hell, conceptualized initially as a movie before finally becoming a TV series with Paramount Plus. That’s both a boon and a bane: technology and TV production quality have improved by leaps and bounds in the…
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Alice in Borderland is a Tense, Brutal Take on the Battle Royale Genre that Raises Questions about the Humanity of its Characters
Adapted from the manga of the same name by Haro Aso, Alice in Borderland is a modern take on the tropes popularized by the likes of Battle Royale and Saw. It’s definitely as brutal as the latter, and the way…
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The Boys Continues its Charming, Irreverent Streak in Second Season, Building upon New Themes and Characters
When The Boys premiered last year, it’s irreverent take on superheroes soon gained a strong following. Using superheroes as a filter, the show took on the entertainment industry, celebrity culture and the military industrial complex. In the second season, it…
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Amazon Prime’s Utopia is a Conspiracy Thriller Involving a Comic Book (and a Pandemic) That Doesn’t Quite Measure up to Its Source Material
Amazon Prime’s Utopia is, perhaps, the most coincidentally timely series of the Coronavirus pandemic so far. Like the real world, it also features a national pandemic quickly taking lives, scientists testing vaccines and people protesting to have said vaccine released…
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The Devil All The Time Explores Relentless Generational Trauma, Set in the American Rural Heartland
The ugliness inherent in The Devil All The Time’s world is inescapable. It seeps into the rural heartland where the story takes place, infecting all characters, warping their minds and twisting their hopes, robbing them of compassion and sincerity. Adapted…
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The Haunting of Hill House is a Probing Study of Grief, Trauma and Family Ties
The Haunting of Hill House is less of an exercise in horror as it is a psychological study on a family’s psyche and strained relationships. Yes, there are ghosts and plenty of unsettling imagery, but at the end of the…
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