Dhamaka and Drushyam 2 to Jai Bhim and Finch: Best streaming picks from November
Subhash • 3 years agoWhat remained during the month was not always brilliant, but sufficiently exciting, if not consistently so, then frequent enough to be considered encouraging. Take a look at some of November’s best.
The Highwaymen movie review: Kevin Costner-Woody Harrelson starrer is hobbled by its half-heartedness
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay • 6 years agoJohn Lee Hancock’s new film The Highwaymen is a dangerous project. One must give credit to the director for having taking it up, despite knowing its attempt to straighten the record would go against a well-established cultural notion — that of the Robin Hood-esque fame notorious outlaws Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (popularly known as Bonnie and Clyde) had attained in Depression-era America.
The Outlaw King movie review: Chris Pine makes for a convincing rebel in this Scottish historical drama
Rohininair • 6 years agoThe Outlaw King, despite the slightly cookie-cutter quality of its David vs Goliath narrative, is made compelling by the performances of Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stephen Dillane and Florence Pugh
A Prayer Before Dawn movie review: Courageous and feral, this 'prison film' is an enriching experience
Anupam Kant Verma • 7 years agoA Prayer Before Dawn stops an inch or two short of true greatness
Quincy movie review: Netflix's biopic-documentary fails to make us intimate with a ridiculously talented man
Anupam Kant Verma • 7 years agoWhile Quincy can be illuminating to audiences not entirely familiar with a legendary record producer’s innumerable facets, it doesn’t present anything truly engaging for a music lover
The Most Assassinated Woman In The World movie review: Unsalvageable, even by a splendid Anna Mouglalis
Anupam Kant Verma • 7 years agoHackneyed ideas are treated crudely in The Most Assassinated Woman In The World
Sierra Burgess Is A Loser movie review: Netflix's faltering teen romance is saved by its sweetness
Rohininair • 7 years agoNoah Centineo is the real winner of Sierra Burgess is A Loser
The Warning movie review: A wasted opportunity to intelligently, emotionally explore mysteries of fate
Anupam Kant Verma • 7 years agoDaniel Calparsoro’s El Aviso (The Warning), the new Spanish language Netflix release, is a missed opportunity
Birthmarked movie review: A fun take on the nature versus nurture debate that turns hackneyed
Anupam Kant Verma • 7 years agoBirthmarked’s great triumph lies in communicating its true message through the innocent yet remarkably clear sighted eyes of children at play
The Devil and Father Amorth movie review: The Exorcist's shadow looms large on Friedkin's new documentary
Anupam Kant Verma • 7 years agoAdmirers of The Exorcist might find material that whets their appetite sufficiently to canter through The Devil and Father Amorth