Category: Review
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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…