Best Movies of 2022, from Top Gun: Maverick to the Banshees of Inisherin
While the year 2021 was still close to the beginning of the pandemic, when global lockdowns and movie theaters shutting down necessitated film fans to begin new ways of watching films, 2022 appears to be all about getting back to…
Best TV Shows of 2022, from ‘Severance’ to ‘Fleishman is in Trouble’
2022 has been a ridiculously good year for the small screen. You might hear that every year, but this year production houses gave us some thrilling and heartwarming shows. As the big-budgeted prequel House of the Dragon continued to make…
The Lost City: An Adventure Book Turns into Reality
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about fiction? You may say it results from someone's bizarre imagination or creative ingenuity. Perhaps you will be blunt and declare it a lie. But what if this…
The Little Mermaid – Swimming in Controversy
Anyone who has spent any amount of time on the pop-culture side of the internet recently knows that racist people are being, well, racist again. The recent publication of a teaser trailer for Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid,…
Do Revenge Provides an Entertaining Take on The Mayhem and Mischief of High School
Have you ever wished to utterly destroy someone who has wronged you? A former boyfriend? A bully? Have you considered ways of ruining their lives completely but refrained from really carrying them out because, well, you gotta be the bigger…
Poran: An Intoxicating Love Triangle that has Bangladesh on edge
When a filmmaker makes a movie, the question "is the movie a success?" arises. “A good movie makes you cry/ laugh/ jump out of your seats” doesn’t seem to be the norm anymore. To me, it’s a matter of fundamentalism,…
Delhi Crime Fails to Live Up to its Legacy in its Second Season
The latest season of Delhi Crime, albeit shorter than the first, is nowhere near as excellent as the first. Season 1 focused on a national issue that had caused widespread agitation in the country in 2012. The 2019 season of…
Only Murders in the Building Continues its Quirky, Character-Heavy Ways in Second Season, Despite the Freshness Having Worn Off
Only Murders in the Building had the unenviable task of continuing its excellent first season’s momentum with its sophomore outing. The second season mostly manages to do so, but sometimes it buckles under the weight of those expectations, throwing too…
Westworld Almost Returns to its Lofty Heights in a Fourth Season that Ends with Chaos (and a Glimmer of Hope)
The last time we watched Westworld, the show had just wrapped up a cinematic but simplified third season that had mostly done away with the show’s complex, layered narratives. Arriving two years later, the fourth season is almost successful in…
Bullet Train is a Light, Heavily-Stylized Action Comedy that Goes On for a Little Too Long
Theaters are so inundated with sequels and reboots these days when it comes to action blockbusters, that even a film like Bullet Train, which feels original despite being adapted from a Japanese novel, feels like a minor cause for celebration.…
- Fargo Delivers a Compelling Fifth Season, Driven by a Standout Lead Performance 9
- Dune: Part Two – A Massive, Visually Transcendent Sci-Fi Achievement 9
- Jaane Jaan: Spectacular Kareena Kapoor, Vijay Varma, and Jaideep Ahlawat convey a wide range of emotions in the mystery thriller. 8
- Blue Eye Samurai: Netflix’s best-animated series in 2023 8
- True Detective: Night Country – A Flawed But Intriguing Return to Form 6
- Napoleon is a Flawed Historical Epic that Offers a Contrarian but Uninteresting Take on the French Emperor 7
- “Unveiling the Tragedy: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Exposes the Chilling Intersection of Greed and Genocide in 1920s Oklahoma 8
