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Recent reviews

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  Face/Off 1997

  ★★★★ Rewatched 22 May 2023

  Face/Off picks a direction and just floors it for the whole movie. It's absolutely bonkers but 100% the movie it intended to be. The thing that stands out most now that CGI has been the standard for so long is how daring and impressive all the stunts are. That's a real guy flopping around on the side of John Travolta's speedboat! Also, kudos for the extended sequence where people repeat the phrase "face off" a billion times.

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  Kathal 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 19 May 2023

  A young police inspector in a small town navigates challenges in her professional and personal life in the comedy Kathal: A Jackfruit Mystery. Writer-director Yashowardhan Mishra gets a lot right in his feature debut, even though the story loses focus as it goes on.

  Full review here.

Popular reviews

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  Cinderella 2015

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2015 6

  I'm happy to call out sexism in movies when I see it, but I think some have been quick to judge this version of CINDERELLA as a typical "damsel in distress" tale and leave it at that. Shortly after Lady Tremaine locks Cinderella in the attic, seemingly for good, Cinderella steels herself against her present circumstances, twirling as she remembers her night at the ball for what it is: a memory. She's not expecting to be rescued. She's making peace…

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  Meri Pyaari Bindu 2017

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 May 2017 1

  Meri Pyaari Bindu (“My Sweet Bindu“) puts a clever spin on a familiar story in a way that allows its talented lead couple to shine. Debutant screenwriter Suprotim Sengupta is one to watch.

  Bollywood is awash in stories about a man who falls for a woman — often based on the woman’s appearance alone — who then makes it his mission to win the woman’s affections in return. These one-sided romances are often portrayed as a matter of destiny: the…