Author: Akhil Arora
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Rocket Boys 2 review: drowned by its aspirations of grandeur
Rocket Boys 2 review: the SonyLIV web series—centred on Homi Bhabha (Jim Sarbh) and Vikram Sarabhai (Ishwak Singh)—doubles down on the worst bits of season 1.
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The Last of Us review: Season 1 is masterful, thrilling, and one of 2023’s best
The Last of Us review: season 1 of the HBO series tweaks, expands, and moves beyond the 2013 eponymous video game in marvellous ways.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review: unreal
Ant-Man 3 lays the foundation for the end of MCU’s Multiverse Saga, but the Marvel movie suffers on nearly every front, save for Jonathan Majors.
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The Night Manager review: Hotstar remake is fine, but it can’t live up to the original
The Indian adaptation of John le Carré’s The Night Manager is better than most Hotstar originals, but it can’t match the award-winning British miniseries.
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Mulan review: Disney movie is not bold—or smart—enough
It panders too much to Chinese interests, and squanders the potential it had. Akhil Arora, a member of the Film Critics Guild and a Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic In some ways, Mulan represents a major departure from Disney’s approach to live-action remakes of its beloved traditionally-animated movies. Unlike the Emma Watson-led Beauty and the Beast,…
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Indian Matchmaking is what we deserve
Netflix keeps making regressive reality TV because people keep watching it. Akhil Arora, a member of the Film Critics Guild and a Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic Earlier in July, a section of Indian Twitter—involving those from the country and many of Indian origin across the world—blew up hate-watching Indian Matchmaking, a new Netflix reality series…