Category: Review
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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…