Top Rated Films
Sukanya Verma's Film Reviews
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Even if Setters shows no inclination to understand the dark desperation that drives parents to buy marks for undeserving children, it could’ve made a little more effort to be sly or suspenseful,
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Avengers: Endgame is a three hour-long emotionally draining, exhilarating, electrifying goodbye.
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At the end of this rather long movie, Alia asks ‘What do you see in this story? Kalank or love?’
I saw beauty at its emptiest. You won’t be able to look away. But you won’t feel anything either.
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‘Kesari devotes a significant chunk of its script to brandish Akshay’s might as the dauntless, magnanimous, Sardar, Havildar Ishar Singh.’ ‘To his credit, the actor is a picture of restraint and righteousness as the worldly-wise Sardar on a mission…
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For a picture is a moment, it doesn’t commit, it contains.
It has no past nor future, it is timeless.
That is the beauty of Batra’s delicate little gem.
It is what it would like to remember and not what unfolds.
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Master of mysteries, Alfred Hitchcock once said, ‘Revenge is sweet, not fattening.’
At two hours running time, Badla keeps the deed both short and sweet.
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Between not taking itself seriously and spewing gyaan over how to win youth votes, Luka Chuppi cannot decide what it wants to hide and where it needs to look.
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Total Dhamaal would be unwatchable without Madhuri’s spunk and bossy swag playing off Anil Kapoor’s bellyaching, bugged half’s protests.
This jodi deserves a better film. And you need no brains to know that.
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Gully Boy is a glorious blend of hip-hop and assured film-making…
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Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga wishes to lend itself as a significant voice of change and support towards the LGBT community, but its woefully apologetic tone regarding individual choices repeatedly negates it when characters — both traumatised and enlightened — spew things like, ‘Yeh janam se hi aise hai’ or ‘I wish I was normal’.
Funny how a woman can fall in love with another woman and still need a man to ensure she gets her happy ending.
That’s normal enough for Bollywood.