The Top.Reviews
  • Run Kalyani
    August 3, 2020

    Run Kalyani

    Gargii Ananthan, playing the titular role in Run Kalyani, wins Best Actress Award at NYIFF.
  • Dil Bechara
    July 24, 2020

    Dil Bechara

    Kennith Rosario: "How often does fiction become so hyperreal?"
  • Indian Matchmaking
    July 17, 2020

    Indian Matchmaking

    Shubhra Gupta: "Especially galling is the way independent-minded women are shown the door."
  • Breathe - Into The Shadows
    July 11, 2020

    Breathe: Into the Shadows

    Kennith Rosario: "Besides manufactured suspense, there is nothing visually arresting in the show."
  • Bhonsle
    June 27, 2020

    Bhonsle

    Saibal Chatterjee: "The gutters are, metaphorically, overflowing."
Film Reviews
  • The Turin Horse

    The Turin Horse

    The Turin Horse Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky Writers: László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr Stars: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos   Among the various elements of camera style, the long uncut sequence has a way of getting attention for...
  • Melancholia

    Melancholia

    Melancholia Writer-director: Lars von Trier Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård Lars von Trier has zeroed in on Andrei Tarkovsky as the greatest filmmaker of all times and, judging from his pronouncements, he is regarding himself as Tarkovsky’s...
Book Review
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