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Film Critics Guild member and Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic Akhil Arora picks his favourite films and documentaries. And just like that, MAMI 2023 (officially, the Mumbai Film Festival) is done. The awards have been handed out—the fishermen documentary Against the Tide, which I noted as one of the promising Indian titles in the pre-festival roll, […]
Rotten Tomatoes-certified critic Akhil Arora ranks all films directed by Christopher Nolan, from Following to Oppenheimer. Arora praises Nolan’s unique storytelling abilities, while critiquing his weak female characters and limited emotional depth.
Akhil Arora’s list features movies from Argentina, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Tunisia, Vietnam, Ukraine, and the US.
The new Netflix movie—with Tabu, Ali Fazal, and Wamiqa Gabbi—is an overlong slog.
Kareena Kapoor Khan is the least interesting element in Sujoy Ghosh’s new Netflix movie, his most mature work yet.
Khan’s movie-star charisma is doomed by Atlee’s didactic writing and direction.
Netflix’s second attempt at an action franchise with Gal Gadot is marginally better than the first.
Greta Gerwig expertly and hilariously sketches out the problems with our male-dominated world—but with zero subtlety. Akhil Arora, a member of the Film Critics Guild and a Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic When I first heard that the writer-director behind Lady Bird and the most recent Little Women movie adaptation had been picked to give us […]
Part thriller and part character study, Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the father of the atomic bomb is his most political movie yet.
No better duo than Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie when it comes to action blockbuster filmmaking in Hollywood today.