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Iman Vellani Marvel Studios Ms. Marvel season one
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Ms. Marvel is a Wonderfully Wholesome Show that Highlights South-East Asian Culture but Skips Out on Plot and Villains
Ms. Marvel was always going to be a dicey play for Marvel, as it’s centered around the first Muslim superhero in the MCU. There’s no surprise that the show has ruffled the feathers of both racists- sorry, ant-SJWS and anti-woke…
Alia Bhatt Bhansali Productions Gangubai Kathiawadi
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Alia Bhatt Delivers a Career-Defining Performance in Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi
Duped into the sex industry at a young age, a sex worker daringly rises from a pawn to ruling over the same industry using her underworld connections to preside over the 60s gangland Mumbai. A magnetic performance from Alia Bhatt…
Ayushmann Khurrana Netflix Anek
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Anek is an Ambitious and Incisive Thriller that Spotlights an Often Overlooked Hotbed of Political Instability
Ayushmann Khurrana reunites with his Article 15 collaborator, director Anubhav Sinha, for an equally hard-hitting, almost abrasive film in Anek, which focuses on a subject rarely shown in Indian mass media: the unrest between the North-East ‘Seven Sisters’ states and…
Shahid Kapoor Ronit Kamra Geetha Arts Jersey
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Jersey is a Decent Sports Drama That Goes On a Bit too Long
Last seen in Kabir Singh, Shahid Kapoor returned to the big screen with Jersey three years later. Adapted from a Telugu film of the same name that was released in 2019, the movie was written and directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri,…
Madhuri Dixit Netflix the Fame Game season one
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The Fame Game Paints a Slightly Predictable Picture of a Heroine’s Life, Powered by Madhuri Dixit’s Performance
The Fame Game is best characterized as a family drama, and is least effective as a crime series. It includes very little investigative police work, but so much of trite dramatization of overdone tropes. For a Bollywood-obsessed nation, creator Sri…
Akshay Kumar Prime Video Bachchan Paandey
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Bachchan Paandey is a Mostly Average Masala Film Anchored by its Lead Performance
A remake of the 2014 Tamil film Jigarthanda, Bachchan Paandey is one of those safe, mass-entertaining masala films that suffer from being quirky but never tapping fully into the ridiculousness of its over-the-top premise. Star Akshay Kumar seems to be…
Abhishek Bachchan Netflix Dasvi
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Dasvi Updates the Munna Bhai Formula with the Story of a Politician Who Decides to Complete his High School Education
Dasvi has an intriguing premise going for it: a corrupt politician decides to finish up his high school education while in prison as his previously submissive wife becomes a heady politician in her own right in his absence. Drawn from…
Yami Gautam Dhar RSVP Movies A Thursday
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A Thursday is a Pulse-Pounding Hostage Thriller that Doesn’t Quite Stick its Landing
A Thursday is clearly meant to be a spiritual successor to the cult hit Naseeruddin Shah-starrer A Wednesday. Both are about a vigilante protagonist going up against the police, driven by societal injustice. This movie, however, is a lot more…
Deepika Padukone Siddhant Chaturvedi Amazon Prime Video Gehraiyaan
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Gehraiyaan Puts in a Surface-Level Effort to Portray Complex Relationship Issues and Childhood Trauma
Gehraiyaan (the depths) is Dharma Productions’ Amazon Prime movie which appears to be a family-drama/romance in the beginning but soon loses itself in the depths of pseudo-psychothriller/surrealism. The plot revolves around the frustrated, distraught Alisha (Deepika Padukone), who is in…
Tahir Raj Bhasin Anchal Singh Netflix Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein Season One
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Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein is a Promising Homage to Pulp Bollywood Films of Yesteryears
Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein is a throwback to pulpy 90s Bollywood classics like Baazigar, which makes sense since the show gets its name from one of the film’s songs. It’s about romance, violence, and plot twists, and when it comes…
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