投稿者: Leslie Felperin
Neeraj Ghaywan’s film benefits from excellent lead performances, strong cinematography and an apparent mentorship from Martin ScorseseHaving screened earlier this year at the Cannes film festival, this Indian drama has already drawn inevitable comparis…
Lawrence Valin directs and stars in this Paris-set drama, where a young man caught between cultures infiltrates criminals shaped by Sri Lanka’s civil warHere is a Paris-set story that unfolds during the Sri Lankan civil war and revolves around Tamil im…
Sparse and precise, this meditative film immerses the viewer in the world of lepidopterist Mansi Mungee and her assistant as they survey hawk mothsThis extremely slow, meditative documentary about a scientist and her assistant studying moths in the eas…
Documentary on the 2020-21 protests in India over three farm acts is interesting in patches, but doesn’t go anywhere unexpectedYou might suspect that documentaries like this – quietly didactic, discreetly partisan, yet dry enough to seem faintly journa…
Documentary expertly follows the only woman to have climbed the mountain 10 times through spectacular scenery and a traumatic personal lifeThis portrait of title subject Lhakpa Sherpa, the only woman to have summited Mount Everest 10 times, is so dense…
Amitabh Bachchan plays a mythological warrior in a withered dystopian city where desert car chases, CGI magic and a semi-divine dictator ruleThis fizzy Telugu-language mashup of Indian mythology, martial arts and Bollywood-style dance-romance-and-melod…
Relocated to north India in 1964, the comic-book class struggle here comes complete with romance and brilliant choreographyOne could be cynical and see this transposition of the Riverdale narrative universe into an Indian setting as just another exerci…
Documentary maker Matthew Heineman watches a tragedy unfold as he follows the Green Berets supporting the Afghan army in the last months of the war against the TalibanAcclaimed documentary maker Matthew Heineman is known for his remarkable ability to s…
A hero of the 2008 Mumbai hotel siege gets a relentlessly entertaining biopic, going all-out with the hagiographic bells and whistlesAs unstintingly jingoistic as it is relentlessly entertaining, this Bollywood blockbuster celebrates a fictionalised ve…
Devika Bhise as the widowed monarch Rani Lakshmibai shows the Victorian Brits, including Rupert Everett, what she’s capable of in this impressive dramaAs Rani Lakshmibai (Devika Bhise), the titular queen in this colourful historical epic, slices and di…
A son hunts for his mother after her unexplained return to her home town in this intriguingly inventive horror story The dialogue is a bit stilted sometimes, and, once all the wrapping is off, the big reveal is slightly silly, but this rare instance of…