Category: Review
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The Railway Men review: incompetence is the name of the game
YRF’s first Netflix series, centred on the 1984 Bhopal tragedy, lacks virtually everything it needs to be Chernobyl or Trial by Fire.
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The Marvels review: too lightweight
The sequel to Captain Marvel, with Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani, is fun in spurts but never the film it needs to be.
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Khufiya review: the exact opposite of a spy thriller
The new Netflix movie—with Tabu, Ali Fazal, and Wamiqa Gabbi—is an overlong slog.
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EA Sports FC 24 review: new name, same FIFA
Aside from a couple of welcome moves, EA’s new football game is largely as it was. Colour me surprised.
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Jaane Jaan review: Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma thrill in solid Netflix movie
Kareena Kapoor Khan is the least interesting element in Sujoy Ghosh’s new Netflix movie, his most mature work yet.
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Jawan review: two Shah Rukh Khans, too many PSAs
Khan’s movie-star charisma is doomed by Atlee’s didactic writing and direction.
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Guns & Gulaabs review: gory and garrulous, unfunny and uninspired
From the creators of The Family Man, a bottom-tier series set in ‘90s small-town India, full of tales that are neither thrilling nor comedic.
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Made in Heaven season 2 review: overwhelming and emotionally exhausting
Though it shines on rare occasions, the Prime Video series struggles to evolve thanks to overlong episodes, a lacking depth, and a failure to recognise its prior faults.
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Heart of Stone review: new Mission: Impossible? Not even close
Netflix’s second attempt at an action franchise with Gal Gadot is marginally better than the first.
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Barbie review: literal feminist fable
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…