Category: film reviews

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Death and the Maiden

Polanski’s play adaptation is a tense and well-acted film where the lines between guilt and innocence are blurred beyond belief.

9

Dedh Ishqiya

Though Chaubey and Bhardwaj’s second installment in the Ishqiya series follows thief duo Khalu and his nephew Babban in yet another con job gone wrong, it is the ladies and their story that sets the film apart.

10

Descendants, The

The Descendants stars George Clooney as Matt King, a man who attempts to re-connect with his daughters after his wife had a boating accident.

8

Despicable Me 2

If there’s one thing I learnt from Despicable Me 2 is that there’s no party like a minion party.

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Detachment

Tony Kaye’s Detachment is a bleak, but beautiful, film about people and their longing to avoid attachments in life.

5

Detective Dee

Detective Dee is called to the scene to solve mysterious deaths due to sudden combustion, before Empress Wu Zetian’s coronation.

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Diana (2013)

Oliver Hirschbiegel’s miserable film is nothing more than a bloated, nearly two hour exposé about how melodramatic Princess Diana’s life was.

7

Dil Dhadakne Do

The simmering differences between the Mehras and their children come to the fore when they decide to take a cruise to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary.