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Baradwaj Rangan
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Film Companion
Movies reviews only
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The Last Farmer (2021) |
It shows the confidence [Manikandan] has in himself as a director... - Film Companion
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| Posted Dec 28, 2022
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Valimai (2022) |
The amma sentiment and the crying baby sentiment, are things that would have been cliched in the Mohenjo Daro era. - Film Companion
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| Posted Mar 02, 2022
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Churuli (2021) |
Usually films come full-circle. But here, it's like a hypnotist's wheel. From the centre-point of the inciting incident, the narrative (and your head) spins further and further away into an unending whirlpool. - Film Companion
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| Posted Nov 23, 2021
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Pebbles (2021) |
Despite the many tragedies in the scenario (both natural and man-made), the film doesn't beg for our sympathies. Only at the very end do we feel a twinge. - Film Companion
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| Posted Oct 25, 2021
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Paka (River of Blood) (2021) |
This is a classic Romeo-Juliet story where two people from two warring families fall in love. But what's interesting is how the director takes the love story for granted and pushes it to the background. - Film Companion
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| Posted Sep 20, 2021
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Nayattu (2021) |
Unlike the usual, glossy thrillers, Nayattu is very rooted. - Film Companion
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| Posted May 21, 2021
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Love (2020) |
The film has a brilliant twist that's not just a stunt but deeply rooted in psychology. It's like Thappad on acid. - Film Companion
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| Posted Mar 02, 2021
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Pitta Kathalu (2021) |
Two films work. Two don't. And the standout is Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam's 'Ramula', which takes big risks with form. - Film Companion
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| Posted Feb 27, 2021
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Soorarai Pottru (2020) |
In terms of sheer professionalism, the film is the best thing that's come on the southern OTT space. - Film Companion
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| Posted Feb 23, 2021
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The White Tiger (2021) |
Like in 99 Homes, Ramin Bahrani directs with an eye on narrative propulsion rather than subtlety - but the film is compulsively watchable. And Adarsh Gourav is a star. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jan 29, 2021
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Maara (2021) |
Maara made me wish for a big screen again. It would have been a spa for the senses. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jan 13, 2021
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Welcome to Chechnya (2020) |
It's the stuff of gripping Cold War espionage thrillers, except that this is real life. - Film Companion
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| Posted Dec 30, 2020
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Milestone (2020) |
It lifts the heart, makes it swell. It says it's not the end of the road. - Film Companion
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| Posted Sep 22, 2020
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Dil Bechara (2020) |
The film is smoothly written (the screenplay is by Shashank Khaitan, Suprotim Sengupta), and it goes down real easy. It's just that it never rises above "watchable-enough". - Film Companion
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| Posted Jul 28, 2020
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Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017) |
Rajamouli gives us one memorable moment after another -- it's not just about grandeur in the sets and visuals, it's about grandeur of the imagination. - Film Companion
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| Posted Mar 04, 2020
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Onward (2020) |
This is pure screenwriting genius, to make us expect something and leave us with something else that's far more satisfying. I wish the whole film had operated at this level, but I'm not complaining... - Film Companion
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| Posted Feb 29, 2020
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Pinocchio (2019) |
Garrone seems to want to make a "realistic" fairy tale, filled as much with sadness as joy, but he forgets to fill it with magic. - Film Companion
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| Posted Feb 29, 2020
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The Intruder (2020) |
There's too much tease, and not enough of a satisfying payoff. - Film Companion
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| Posted Feb 29, 2020
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Minamata (2020) |
I just wanted the film to care more... - Film Companion
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| Posted Feb 29, 2020
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My Salinger Year (2020) |
These marvellous flights of fancy are grounded by Qualley's remarkably unsentimental performance. There's so little that's showy. Writing, after all, is such an interior activity. - Film Companion
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| Posted Feb 21, 2020
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Good Newwz (2019) |
If Diljit Dosanjh's persona were a movie, I'd imagine it'd be something like this: genial, casual, comfortable with its blingy brightness, not particularly out to transform the world but impossible to resist. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jan 07, 2020
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Thoota (2019) |
This is a screenplay in which the i's have been dotted and the t's have been crossed with care. And with class. - Film Companion
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| Posted Dec 03, 2019
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The film is a disaster at every conceivable level. - Film Companion
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| Posted Nov 26, 2019
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) |
I didn't hate it, exactly, but I sat through the film solely as a completist. - Film Companion
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| Posted Nov 06, 2019
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Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (2019) |
With a mega star and a mega budget, is it too much to hope for a mega movie? - Film Companion
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Moothon has enough going on to justify a good half-hour more. But bumps and all, the journey is rewarding because there's always a deeply felt event around the corner. - Film Companion
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| Posted Oct 21, 2019
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War (2019) |
War is a defining action movie of our time. It's Hollywood enough to rock the multiplexes, but it doesn't forget its roots. - Film Companion
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| Posted Oct 14, 2019
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Dream Girl (2019) |
These are one-joke characters, and this is a one-joke movie. Very quickly, a sense of staleness sets in. - Film Companion
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| Posted Sep 19, 2019
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Joker (2019) |
After a lot of throat-clearing, Joker finally becomes the movie it wants to be, positioning its protagonist squarely as the antagonist in the Batman mythos we know so well. - Film Companion
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| Posted Sep 07, 2019
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Bombay Rose (2019) |
Bombay Rose subverts not just Bombay cinema's storytelling, but also the implicit assumptions of Bombay cinema. - Film Companion
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| Posted Aug 30, 2019
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Raatchasi (2019) |
It's great that Jyotika is cherry-picking projects that indulge in a fair bit of "heroine worship". But she really needs better scripts. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jul 16, 2019
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Article 15 (2019) |
For Article 15 to fully unleash its power, Nishad needed to be more than just a bit player. He is one of many characters who are outlined but not meaningfully fleshed out, and therefore appear tokenistic. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jul 02, 2019
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Game Over (2019) |
Game Over is a bona fide original. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jun 17, 2019
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Bharat (2019) |
At one point, Bharat launches into the national anthem in its entirety and some of the people around me began to stand up. Bharat is the kind of film you'd expect Akshay Kumar to make. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jun 07, 2019
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Student of the Year 2 (2019) |
It isn't just the clothes that look like they've been flown in from Milan. It's the whole movie. Couture Couture Hota Hai. - Film Companion
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| Posted May 14, 2019
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Super Deluxe (2019) |
This is an utterly unique film, a brave film. - Film Companion
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| Posted Apr 01, 2019
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Gully Boy (2019) |
Zoya continues to demonstrate that she is one of our best directors. Her eye for pacing and staging, her ability to manufacture and maintain mood and atmosphere - they're just fantastic. - Film Companion
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| Posted Feb 13, 2019
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Peranbu (Malayalam) (2019) |
Ram's films have always displayed love for his protagonists. In Peranbu, we sense much love for the medium, too. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jan 30, 2019
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Thackeray (2019) |
Thackeray is a warts-and-none propaganda film about a man who peddled hate and keenly fostered a sense of otherness. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jan 28, 2019
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Zero (2018) |
Zero is all heart. It probably won't work if you start thinking about the probability of it all, but after a wobbly half-hour I found the film easy to embrace. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jan 15, 2019
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Viswasam (2019) |
Siva seems to have taken the memes and mean tweets personally. He doesn't try for the wannabe-ness of Vivegam. The writing is clean, simple. He isn't out to win the Oscar for Best Screenplay, but he fills his film with solid emotional beats. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jan 15, 2019
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Petta (2019) |
Petta looks rushed and even the Karthik Subbaraj flourishes come off like affectations. - Film Companion
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| Posted Jan 11, 2019
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Thuppakki Munai (2018) |
The staging, the rhythms are totally off. - Film Companion
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| Posted Dec 15, 2018
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2.0 (2018) |
That's the good thing about Shankar. He keeps throwing things at you. Now, if he'd only get a good writer to shape all these things into a solid script, it would make all the difference between 2.oho and 2.uh-oh! - Film Companion
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| Posted Nov 30, 2018
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Thugs of Hindostan (2018) |
There are three words in the title of Vijay Krishna Acharya's new film, and at least two of them are wrong. - Film Companion
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| Posted Nov 10, 2018
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Sarkar (2018) |
Sarkar is an efficient setup for a political entry, but as a movie, it should have been far more effective. - Film Companion
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| Posted Nov 10, 2018
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Bulbul Can Sing (2018) |
This is pure Rima Das. The film regains its footing, despite the stray bits of motivational-poster wisdom. - Film Companion
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| Posted Oct 31, 2018
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The Wild Pear Tree (2018) |
This isn't dialogue that... explains. It's dialogue that replaces event, and takes us right into this place and its people. The final stretch is among the most purely emotional passages in Ceylan's oeuvre. - Film Companion
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| Posted Oct 19, 2018
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The House That Jack Built (2018) |
... what kind of human being are you? They say great art makes you question things. There can't be a bigger question than that... - Film Companion
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| Posted Oct 19, 2018
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In the Aisles (2018) |
It's a chronicle of blue-collar workers who depend on each other for emotional sustenance. A deep sadness lurks under the laughs. It seeps under your skin. - Film Companion
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| Posted Oct 19, 2018
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