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All of Us Strangers
It’s really the story of what happens to the kid from The Sixth Sense when he grows up. Adam, a writer in London, wanders back to his childhood home to find his parents, who died in a car crash decades ago. He’s grown up, they’re the same age as they were when they were killed.…
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Fighter
Fighter isn’t awful. It just becomes boring very quickly and is consistently disappointing. It also makes me think Adi Chopra and/ or the YRF team ensured War & Pathaan are the entertainers they are, rather than 166 mins of juvenile chest-thumping like Fighter is. This is a film that uses fiction as a fig leaf…
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Hold Please
Halfway into the third season of Only Murders in the Building — which is not as delightful as the first, but better than the second — and this moment from the first episode is a winner. It’s really interesting to see how the show uses the romantic sub-plots to do so much of the heavy…
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Made in Heaven S1
(Wrote this back in March 2019.) Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti’s Made in Heaven has no shortage of pretty shots and prettier people. This one below is perhaps my favourite one because it tells a story. The bejewelled woman reminds you of the ritual of sringara, which translates to dressing up or decoration and is…
Deepanjana Pal 