Ranjib Mazumder
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‘Glass’ Review: ‘Glass’ Corners Shyamalan’s Characters Into a Dead End
Shyamalan’s doggedness on his ingenuity ends the chamber drama with an anti-climactic climax and a Bollywood twist. → Read More
‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ Review: The Claire Foy Film Clips Lisbeth Salander’s Wings
Fede Álvarez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web stars Caire Foy as Lisbeth Salandar. The film works as a skilled action thriller, propelled by its Bond-like heroine. → Read More
The Grinch Movie Review: The Grinch Neither Offends Nor Does It Go out of Its Way to Charm
The Grinch Movie Review: The Grinch is directed by Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier, and stars the voices of Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson, Cameron Seely and Angela Lansbury, and is narrated by Pharrell Williams. → Read More
‘A Star Is Born’ Review: The Stars Dazzle, But ‘A Star Is Born’ Fails in Politics
‘A Star Is Born’ Review: Starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. Bradley Cooper makes his directorial debut. → Read More
The Predator Review: Neither Funny nor Thrilling, The Predator Is a Confused Reboot
The Predator Review: Starring Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn and directed by Shane Black, the viewers of ‘The Predator’ are sure to figure out why the original knew better. → Read More
Review: John Cho’s ‘Searching’ Offers Modest Thrills by Sticking to Its Gimmick
‘Searching’ Review: Starring John Cho, the film is directed by Aneesh Chaganty, an Indian-American techie turned filmmaker. Searching is your regular missing person thriller, here only aided by a high concept push. → Read More
Hotel Transylvania 3 Review: Has Its Heart in the Right Place
Hotel Transylvania 3 Review. The third sequel has voiceovers by Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez. It might not be as rewarding as the previous two films, but the heart is still in the right place. → Read More
‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Review: This Marvel Film Sizes up Superherodom With Loony Charm
‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Review: The 20th Marvel film is directed by Peyton Reed and stars Paul Rudd as Lang and Evangeline Lilly as Van Dyne. Produced by Marvel and distributed by Walt Disney, it is the sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man. → Read More
Ocean’s 8 Review: ‘Ocean’s 8’ Falls Short on Fun in the Domain of Dames
Ocean’s 8 Review: Starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, and Awkwafina, the film directed by Gary Ross falls short on fun despite the wonderful talent. → Read More
‘Incredibles 2’ Review: As Good as the Original
‘Incredibles ‘2 Review: Starring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huck Milner, the much-awaited sequel, directed by Brad Bird, illustrates how action can be kinetic and fluid despite multiple characters. → Read More
‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Review: Park Gone, So Is the Fun
Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom Review: Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Chirs Pratt, Jeff Goldblum, BD Wong and directed by J. A. Bayona - Jurassic World 2 does not match up to the first part. → Read More
Meet Priyanshu Painyuli, the Real Star of Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
Priyanshu Painyuli, the Break-Out Star in Vikramaditya Motwane’s ‘Bhavesh Joshi Superhero’. Bhavesh holds us because Priyanshu Painyuli breathes life into him as if he has lived in this body for as long as he can remember. → Read More
13 Films You Just Can’t Miss at the Cannes Film Festival This Year
Here’s the checklist of films you should look out for at Cannes 2018. → Read More
Review: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Is the Ultimate Thanos Movie
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Review: Directed by Russo brothers with Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Pratt, who unite to defeat Thanos. → Read More
Review: ‘Rampage’ Is Thrilled With Its Over the Top Mediocrity
‘Rampage’, directed by Brad Peyton and starring Dwayne Johnson is exactly what you expect it to be: A dumb blockbuster which is nothing but destruction porn. → Read More
Review: Spielberg’s Ready Player One Is the Kurukshetra of Geekdom
Ready Player One Review: Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film is the Kurukshetra of geekdom. → Read More
Review: ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ Is the Same Old Destruction Porn
Pacific Rim Uprising Review: Starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Jing Tian, Cailee Spaeny, Rinko Kikuchi and is directed by Steven S. DeKnight. The film is written by DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, and T.S. Nowlin. → Read More
Review: ‘Gringo’ Mostly Gives You a Sense of DéJà Vu
Movie Review: Amazon Studios film, ‘Gringo’ stars David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried. → Read More
‘Red Sparrow’ Review: An Exploitative & Tedious Espionage Thriller
‘Red Sparrow’ is a tedious and exploitative espionage thriller. Jennifer Lawrence plays a seductive secret agent in the spy thriller adapted from Jason Matthews’ novel. → Read More
‘Three Billboards...’: At the Crossroads of Justice and Revenge
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri film review. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, starring Frances McDormand, brings us at the crossroads of justice and revenge. → Read More