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Hot take: A Tramway in Jerusalem
‘A Tramway in Jerusalem’ is an episodic film sketching vignettes of conversations and encounters that function as little windows into the...
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Hot take: Maya
‘Maya’ is a meandering journey into the life of a war reporter who decides that the best therapy for trauma is a visit to Goa. The...
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Hot take: Shadow
‘Shadow’ ('Ying') is a visually arresting spectacle that tells a version of the Three Kingdoms story, a period of history known as...
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Hot take: Amar
'Amar' is a wonderful look at the agonies and ecstasies of first love and the illusions it comes with. Opening with a beautiful floodlit...
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Hot take: Up in the Air
‘Up in the Air’ is many things: a romance featuring a middle-aged couple’s casual yet passionate story, a comedy about a weary old-timer...
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Hot take: Manto
'Manto' (2018) is a biopic on one of India (and Pakistan)'s finest short story writers, Saadat Hasan Manto. The opening shot plunges us...
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Hot take: Stree
'Stree' (2018) is a horror-comedy based on an urban legend about a female ghost who haunts a town that killed her for daring to elope...
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Hot take: Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society' is a film as vapid and pretentious as its awfully quirky title. By turns attempting to be...
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Hot take: Easy
'Easy' is a television series with each episode telling a single stand-alone story that takes off on a concept or a particular...
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Hot take: An Insignificant Man
'An Insignificant Man' (2016) is a fascinating documentary that traces the movement of an idealist-activist into the political sphere....
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Hot take: Bareilly ki Barfi
'Bareilly ki Barfi' (2017) is a love triangle set in a small town buoyed by a strong cast of colourful characters (except, glaringly, the...
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Hot take: Sacred Games
'Sacred Games' (2018) is a gripping original series where familiar elements -- a cat and mouse chase between a cop and a gangster, the...
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Hot take: Andhadhun
'Andhadhun' (2018) is, at face value, a thriller and a mystery centred around a yesteryear film actor who can't seem to get enough of his...
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Hot take: Lady Bird
'Lady Bird' is a coming-of-age story retold in its actual setting, with characters that are usually turned into caricatures--the rich...
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Hot take: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
'Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri' is a meditation on vengeance, redemption, skewed gender relations and the complacency of the...
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Hot take: Lust Stories
'Lust Stories' (2018) is a mixed bag of short films from four of India's most well-known directors, all ostensibly exploring lust and its...
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Hot take: Veere di Wedding
There is much to admire about the intention behind ‘Veere di Wedding’ (2018) (directed by Shashanka Ghosh): to essentially reclaim the...
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Hot take: Raazi
'Raazi' (2018) is a taut, edge-of-the-seat spy drama about an Indian girl (a fantastic Alia Bhatt) sent undercover to Pakistan in the...
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Hot take: Leviathan
'Leviathan' ('Leviafan') combines a scathing critique of religion and the state in contemporary Russia with a compelling visual landscape...
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Hot take: Secret Superstar
'Secret Superstar' (2017) is a lovingly-wrought, unflinchingly and yet somehow unobtrusively observed movie that manages to fit in...
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