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  • A hyper-violent movie that sincerely preaches non-violence.

    Rambo

    A hyper-violent movie that sincerely preaches non-violence.

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  • Zack Snyder sets a new bench-mark for stylized visuals with this movie.

    300

    Zack Snyder sets a new bench-mark for stylized visuals with this movie.

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  • As an intelligent and important film with a purpose, The Great Debaters is constantly uplifting and deeply moving.

    The Great Debaters

    As an intelligent and important film with a purpose, The Great Debaters is constantly uplifting and deeply moving.

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  • Intertwining stories set in Mumbai set against an excellent soundtrack.

    Life in a… Metro

    Intertwining stories set in Mumbai set against an excellent soundtrack.

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  • Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men is a rare film; it is almost perfect. Grim, critical of the present and yet somehow hopeful, it is a meditation on the implications and consequences of scientific advances that feels like a cross breed of 12 Monkeys and Brazil. It is easy to classify the film as science fiction – it is set in 2027 after all – but the chronology of the film becomes less relevant as it progresses. This could be the state of our Earth a year from now. The visceral, almost virtuoso filmmaking style of Mexican Cuaron gives the film […]

    Children of Men

    Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men is a rare film; it is almost perfect. Grim, critical of the present and yet somehow hopeful, it is a meditation on the implications and consequences of scientific advances that feels like a cross breed of 12 Monkeys and Brazil. It is easy to classify the film as science fiction – it is set in 2027 after all – but the chronology of the film becomes less relevant as it progresses. This could be the state of our Earth a year from now. The visceral, almost virtuoso filmmaking style of Mexican Cuaron gives the film […]

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  • Amongst astute film lovers, a Terrence Malick film ignites about the same amount of interest as a rare solar eclipse. Widely hailed as the J. D. Salinger of the American film world (and rightly so), this reclusive, visual genius has concocted some of the most mythic and resonant films about love and death with a mastery for framing indelible, precise images where landscapes, never people, dominate the screen. By those accounts, The New World is at once both a quintessential Malick film and a rare cinematic episode. It is as unique an experience as his The Thin Red Line or […]

    The New World

    Amongst astute film lovers, a Terrence Malick film ignites about the same amount of interest as a rare solar eclipse. Widely hailed as the J. D. Salinger of the American film world (and rightly so), this reclusive, visual genius has concocted some of the most mythic and resonant films about love and death with a mastery for framing indelible, precise images where landscapes, never people, dominate the screen. By those accounts, The New World is at once both a quintessential Malick film and a rare cinematic episode. It is as unique an experience as his The Thin Red Line or […]

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  • If you have not seen an Indian movie in a long time, this is the one to break your hiatus with.

    Omkara

    If you have not seen an Indian movie in a long time, this is the one to break your hiatus with.

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  • Sarkar is the movie that would be played in the tributes of everyone associated with it.

    Sarkar

    Sarkar is the movie that would be played in the tributes of everyone associated with it.

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  • Give Vishal Bharadwaj a solid pat on the back, and sit back waiting for his next movie.

    Maqbool

    Give Vishal Bharadwaj a solid pat on the back, and sit back waiting for his next movie.

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  • A welcome departure from stereotypical Bollywood fare

    Charas

    A welcome departure from stereotypical Bollywood fare

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