Rohan Naahar
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Rohan Naahar is based out of New Delhi, India, and has been reviewing films and television shows for over half-a-decade. He is a member of the Film Critics Guild of India, and has written for the Hindustan Times and the Indian Express.
Movies reviews only
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Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (2023) |
Confoundingly, Money Shot doesn’t feature voices from Pornhub — big or small. And this is its biggest failure. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Mar 19, 2023
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We Have a Ghost (2023) |
We Have a Ghost is indefensibly overlong, which is odd for a movie aimed at kids with short attention spans. It also can’t help but feel a little disposable. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Mar 11, 2023
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Mili (2022) |
Released to minimal buzz and negligible box office — it is, as best, only a passable film — Mili is best enjoyed as a metaphor for Janhvi Kapoor’s career. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Mar 11, 2023
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The Strays (2023) |
The Strays often wanders into some potentially dramatic territory, but leaves before sniffing under every rock. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Feb 23, 2023
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Uunchai (2022) |
Every moment, every exchange, every line of dialogue feels like it was coughed up by the human equivalent of Bing, while being held prisoner in the Rajshri basement. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Feb 23, 2023
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Sharper (2023) |
A stylish throwback to David Mamet's conman thrillers, Apple's latest original film is a consistently entertaining, and very classy ride. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Your Place or Mine (2023) |
Netflix's new rom-com puts itself in a cage of its own making by not allowing us to witness Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher's chemistry on screen. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Somebody I Used To Know (2023) |
In these starved-for-content times, Somebody I Used to Know is grounds for going on an intermittent fast. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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An Action Hero (2022) |
An Action Hero chooses victimhood over vicious satire. The humour is forced, the satire is toothless, and the meta-commentary pedestrian. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Feb 02, 2023
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Pathaan (2023) |
Pathaan got Indians across the world to cheer for a Pakistani ex-ISI agent, and Pakistanis to cheer for a Bollywood superstar. Nobel Peace Prize or bust. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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You People (2023) |
After a rather delightful opening act, You People struggles to find its identity before settling into the safest nook that it can find: Hollywood schmaltz. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Jan 28, 2023
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Shotgun Wedding (2023) |
The aggressively unambitious Shotgun Wedding wants nothing more than to transport you to the glorious five-year era when Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl movies would casually generate more box office revenue than RRR. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Jan 28, 2023
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Jung_E (2023) |
Like an anime with Isaac Asimov’s hands all over it, the new Korean action film Jung_E finds director Yeon Sang-ho playing to his strengths. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Jan 20, 2023
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Drishyam 2 (2022) |
Although it's arguably a better movie than most Bollywood hits of 2022, Ajay Devgn's Drishyam 2 presents a version of masculinity that had almost gone out of fashion until the pandemic thrust Indian filmmaking back into the prehistoric age. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Jan 20, 2023
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022) |
A gothic mystery that not only owes a great creative debt to the stories of Edgar Allen Poe but also features him as a supporting character, director Scott Cooper's latest is an inherently goofy movie undone by delusions of grandeur. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Jan 06, 2023
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Aftersun (2022) |
Steven Spielberg mustered the courage to confront his childhood trauma only five decades into his career (and after the perpetrators of it had both passed). Charlotte Wells has achieved something just as majestic with her first movie. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Jan 06, 2023
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Phone Bhoot (2022) |
Every argument made in Bollywood’s defence this year can potentially be shattered at the mere mention of Phone Bhoot, the latest in a new wave of horror comedies that is being slipped into the box office’s bloodstream. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Jan 06, 2023
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White Noise (2022) |
A wild creative leap for director Noah Baumbach, White Noise is a jarring (and not entirely justifiable) movie that morphs writer Don DeLillo’s classic postmodern novel into a Network-like satire of the times. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 31, 2022
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022) |
The new Matilda retains the novel’s warm melancholy without unnecessarily appealing to the Gen Z like so many contemporary musicals tend to. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 31, 2022
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Vir Das: Landing (2022) |
Balancing incisive cultural observations with broad sentimentality, India's biggest comedy export, Vir Das, continues to elicit giggles and gag-orders. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 31, 2022
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) |
More playful than its predecessor but still as socially relevant, Rian Johnson’s Netflix film finds Daniel Craig in particularly debonair form. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 25, 2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
You have to hand it to a filmmaker who is willing to devote an entire subplot to a computer-generated whale-like creature that communicates more with its eyes than any human in both Ant-Man movies combined. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 25, 2022
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) |
Pinocchio serves as a conclusion to a spiritually connected trilogy that del Toro began with The Devil’s Backbone and continued with Pan’s Labyrinth. The tone is symmetrical with the material, which has for so long been misclassified as a kids’ fable. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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Decision to Leave (2022) |
It’s a twisted tale of yearning and desire, an erotic thriller in which nobody gets naked. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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Emancipation (2022) |
Watching Emancipation, you begin to suspect that Will Smith maybe knew that was going to slap someone at the Oscars and be in immediate need of a prop to parade around on an apology tour several months later. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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Qala (2022) |
It’s a film that romanticises female suffering, presenting it not as a horrid truth of patriarchal society, but as a rite of passage instead. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 07, 2022
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) |
The latest adaptation of DH Lawrence’s novel dares to present a tender love story where one might expect a raunchy period redo of Fifty Shades of Grey. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 04, 2022
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"Sr." (2022) |
It makes you wonder if you’re an intruder, as you watch three generations of Downey men hug it out over a deathbed. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 04, 2022
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Chup (2022) |
Director R Balki's Chup: Revenge of the Artist isn't a slasher horror or a serial killer thriller; it's actually a parody of those genres, with lots to say about the state of films and film criticism. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Troll (2022) |
Directed by the fabulously named Roar Uthaug, the new Norwegian language Netflix film Troll is a wonderful pastiche of American blockbusters. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Kantara: A Legend (2022) |
Kantara isn’t a magic-realist fable set in rural India at all, but basically a toxic KGF clone with a plot denser than the forest in which its (toxic) hero lives. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 28, 2022
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Good Night Oppy (2022) |
More than a science documentary, Good Night Oppy is an elegiac biopic; one that just happens to be about a robot. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 28, 2022
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The Swimmers (2022) |
The cinematic equivalent of splashing around in the kiddie pool. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 25, 2022
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) |
A glorified DVD bonus feature at best, and at worst, the most arrogant flex against Martin Scorsese that the MCU could have ever thought of. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 25, 2022
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Slumberland (2022) |
For Netflix to be this non-committal about a $150 million fantasy film starring Jason Momoa as a horned lothario cosplaying Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler doesn’t seem like the worst idea. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 20, 2022
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Disenchanted (2022) |
At two hours, Disenchanted is definitely too long to sustain the interest of adults, let alone children who’d rather dance to Idina Menzel’s songs on Reels than enjoy them here. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Spirited (2022) |
Billed as a musical reimagining of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the film is about as cheerful an experience as having to deal with Amazon customer care on Christmas Eve because they lost your present in transit. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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The Wonder (2022) |
Divinity and depravity collide in director Sebastian Lelio’s The Wonder. It’s the second Netflix film in less than a month, after The Good Nurse, to be thoroughly misrepresented by its mid title. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Stutz (2022) |
Emotionally resonant and technically innovative, Jonah Hill's Netflix documentary is a great ode to friendship and kindness. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 16, 2022
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Monica, O My Darling (2022) |
Monica, O My Darlings reclaims the narrative from the sweaty dudes who’ve been in charge for so long, and foregrounds the sort of character who’d normally be restricted to the sidelines. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 12, 2022
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Ponniyin Selvan: Part I (2022) |
Ponniyin Selvan: I — a title that has the aura of a thinly veiled threat — is more crowded than the inside of a Chennai tiffin house at breakfast, and features action so poorly directed that it will remind you of Steven Seagal movies from the 90s. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 09, 2022
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Enola Holmes 2 (2022) |
It's heartening to see Netflix and Millie Bobby Brown's spirited franchise retain its charms in the face of the more masculine (and considerably worse) Red Notice and Gray Man-type movies that the streamer is betting big on. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 06, 2022
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Causeway (2022) |
Jennifer Lawrence delivers her best performance in years in Apple's quiet drama about an Army veteran recovering from both physical and psychological traumas. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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My Policeman (2022) |
My Policeman resembles that parody trailer about gay priests at the beginning of Tropic Thunder. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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Barbarian (2022) |
On pure inventiveness alone, Barbarian stands out in a cluttered horror marketplace, even if the shady guys that it attempts to call out can be rather difficult to identify. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Nov 02, 2022
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) |
Watching All Quiet on the Western Front is like watching one of those PETA slaughterhouse videos. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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Wendell & Wild (2022) |
Like any real movie — not the sort of stuff Disney has dedicated itself to making these days — Wendell & Wild requires attention and patience. Whether or not it succeeds is another matter. But even if it doesn’t, at least it fails on its own terms. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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The Good Nurse (2022) |
Barring a couple of moments — you will recognise one of them featuring Redmayne immediately — The Good Nurse has none of the loud, scenery chewing performances that one would normally associate with Oscar-bait such as this. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Oct 28, 2022
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The Stranger (2022) |
The title hardly represents the kind of slow-burn death stare into the heart of the abyss that this film is. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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Raymond & Ray (2022) |
Raymond & Ray is such an aggressively strange blend of styles that virtually every living person in it demands to be plucked out of the screen and plonked on a stage somewhere. - The Indian Express
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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