Top Rated Films
Shalini Langer's Film Reviews
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Mockingjay – Part 2 works again because Lawrence, who has grown as much as Katniss through the course of this series, brings forth the right mix of vulnerability and steel required of her. It’s a rare achievement on screen for a heroine to be so consistently a person than a woman, making no concessions to her so-called feminine self.
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A tighter film would see Billy Ray deploy much cleverer and subtler methods than he does in his pursuit of Marzin/Beckwith. However, that is about the only wrong note Secret in their Eyes strikes.
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…the politics comes with dollops of morality and sweet sentimentality, all coming together in the person of — yes — Tom Hanks.
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Glee is the underlying narrative of from this surprisingly optimistic space tale the director who gave us Alien. ‘Man stranded on Mars’ is just the setting.
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Covering the events between 1975 and 1992, the movie is essentially about FBI’s arrangement with Depp’s character that was only used by the latter to further his criminal run.
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After watching ‘Pawn Sacrifice’, the game, that involves kings, queens, knights and bishops, but essentially two players poring over a small table, will never look the same again.
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The film is shot beautifully, and in 3D, the dips and highs of the glorious peak are eminently watchable.
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Edgerton and Bateman put in very good performances in a story that depends entirely on our inability to trust their characters.
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After 130 seven-minute television episodes, starting eight years ago, Shaun the Sheep has made it to the big screen. Despite the size and the scale (85 minutes), and the transition to the big city, directors-screenwriters Mark Burton and Richard Starzak retain the innocence about a flock of sheep and their beloved farmer, down to the no-frills stop-motion animation and the no-words story but for some baas and murmurs.
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There are fewer sights as exuberant as Melissa McCarthy on a roll. And that includes her rolling. The actress is again at her swearing, fighting, kicking best here, letting it all hang out as a CIA desk person who finds herself out in the field.