By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Annabelle: Creation”; Director: David F. Sandberg; Cast: Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Bateman, Lulu Wilson, Philippa Coulthard, Grace Fulton, Lou Lou Safran, Samara Lee, Tayler Buck, Anthony LaPaglia, Miranda Otto and Mark Bramhall;…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Partition: 1947”; Director: Gurinder Chadha; Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Michael Gambon, Neeraj Kabi, Denzil Smith, Tanveer Ghani, Simon Callow and Lily Travers; Rating: ***…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Partition: 1947”; Director: Gurinder Chadha; Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi and Om Puri; Rating: ****1/2 At the end of Gurinder Chadha’s breathtakingly beautiful parable on political…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Dhananjoy”; Language: Bengali; Director: Arindam Sil; Cast: Anirban Bhattacharya, Mimi Chakraborty, Kaushik Sen and Arja Bannerjee; Rating: ****1/2 Don’t the poor have the right to live? This question haunted me…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Atomic Blonde’; Director: David Leitch; Starring: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella; Rating: * In this vacuous, airheaded bimbette of a film that tries be worldly-wise all-knowing and chic, the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Emoji”; Director: Anthony Leondis; Voices of: T.J. Miller, James Cordea, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright and Jennifer Coolidge; Rating: **1/2 This animated science fiction with an intelligent concept, which integrates…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha”; Director: Shree Narayan Singh; Cast: Akshay Kumar, Bhumi Pednekar, Divyendu Sharma, Sudhir Pandey, Anupam Kher, Ayesha Raza Mishra, Rating: ***1/2 Vidya Balan is seen on television espousing…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha”; Director: Shree Narayan Singh; Cast: Akshay Kumar, Bhumi Pednekar, Divyendu Sharma, Sudhir Pande and Anupam Kher; Rating: **** There is a point of no return in…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Atomic Blonde”; Director: David Leitch; Cast: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella and Toby Jones; Rating: **1/2 “Atomic Blonde” is an action-packed, stylishly mounted but…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Jab Harry Met Sejal” Director: Imitaz Ali Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Evelyn Sharma, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Aru Krishansh Verma Rating: *1/2 If you are content to simply bask…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Gurgaon”; Director: Shanker Raman; Cast: Akshay Oberoi, Ragini Khanna, Pankaj Tripathy, Aamir Bashir, Shalini Vatsa, Arjun Fauzdar and Yogi Singha; Rating: **1/2 The film opens with a promising, serious sequence that…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Jab Harry Met Sejal”; Director: Imtiaz Ali; Cast: Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma, Rating: **1/2 If the flop-ridden Hindi film industry had its hopes pinned on the new Shah…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Gurgaon”; Director: Shanker Raman; Cast: Pankaj Tripathy, Akshay Oberoi, Ragini Khanna and Aamir Bashir; Rating: **** The gleaming, glittering surfaces of Gurgaon which stands between the violent hinterland of Haryana…
Mumbai, July 31 (IANS) Madhur Bhandarkar’s latest controversial drama “Indu Sarkar” has registered earnings of over Rs 4 crore at the box office in its opening weekend and has received mixed reviews from critics. But…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Indu Sarkar’; Director: Madhur Bhandarkar; Starring Kirti Kulhari, Tota Roy Choudhary, Neil Nitin Mukesh Rating: ****(4 Stars) Maybe it’s too early here to mention Kirti Kulhari’s indomitable brilliance in this…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Berlin Syndrome”; Director: Cate Shortland; Cast: Teresa Palmer and Max Reimelt; Rating: *** This matter-of-fact brisk and tactile thriller doesn’t take long to get down to the business on hand….
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Mubarakan”, Director: Anees Bazmee; Cast: Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Ileana D’Cruz, Athiya Shetty, Neha Sharma, Pavan Malhotra and Ratna Pathak; Rating: **** Okay, not every movie experience has to be…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Indu Sarkar” Director: Madhur Bhandarkar Cast: Kirti Kulhari, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Anupam Kher, Sheeba Chaddha and Parvin Dabas Rating: ** A political drama with a detailed disclaimer about…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Baaraat Company”; Director: Syed Ahmad Afzal; Cast: Sandeepa Dhar, Anurita Jha, Ranveer Kumar, Vishal Karwal, Rohit Bhatnagar and Nasser Abdullah, Rating: ** Set in Lucknow, director Syed Ahmad Afzal’s “Baaraat Company”…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mubarakan”; Director: Anees Bazmee; Cast: Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Ileana D’Cruz, Athiya Shetty, Neha Sharma, Ratna Pathak Shah and Pavan Raj Malhotra, Rating: *** Nothing is implausible if it works in…