Vikram Murthi
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New York, United States
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‘Missing’ Review: Stand-Alone ‘Searching’ Sequel Takes Gimmick to Bigger (and Dumber) Places
The latest “screenlife” film stars Storm Reid as a concerned daughter trying to find her missing mom, played by Nia Long. → Read More
‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Review: Daniel Radcliffe Becomes the Beloved Parody Musician
TIFF: Daniel Radcliffe stars in a frequently exaggerated, often fabricated story of Yankovic’s rise to fame. → Read More
‘Padre Pio’ Review: Shia LaBeouf Stars in Disjointed, Sloppy Drama About Italian Friar
Venice: Director Abel Ferrara splits the film between a cheap political allegory and a self-serious psychological struggle. → Read More
‘Funny Pages’ Review: Shades of ‘Ghost World’ Color Cartoonist Comedy
Owen Kline’s debut stars Daniel Zolghadri as an aspiring underground cartoonist who rejects high school and suburbia after his mentor dies. → Read More
Charlie Day and Jenny Slate try to win back their exes in the rote rom-com I Want You Back
There’s no spark of life in this by-the-numbers date movie → Read More
Swan Song wastes Mahershala Ali and a promising Eternal Sunshine-like sci-fi premise
Ali stars as a dying man who clones himself to save his family from grief → Read More
‘The King’s Man’ Review: Matthew Vaughn’s Spy Prequel Is Incoherent, Cynical, and Dull
Ralph Fiennes stars as an aristocratic pacifist who learns to serve his country in a self-serious origin story that's just as juvenile as the rest of "The Kingsman" franchise. → Read More
Cannes winner Drive My Car is a hypnotic, beguiling portrait of life after loss
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's second film of 2021 revolves around an experimental production of Uncle Vanya → Read More
A Cop Movie blurs the thin blue line between reality and police-thriller fiction
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios examines how much performance goes into being a cop → Read More
Todd Haynes captures the spirit of The Velvet Underground in an exhilarating new rock doc
The I'm Not There director employs experimental techniques to contextualize the group in a larger artistic movement → Read More
Joaquin Phoenix anchors the disappointingly precious C’mon C’mon in the final week of NYFF
Jane Campion’s Western drama The Power Of The Dog and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s stunning Memoria fare much better → Read More
Wes Anderson returns with a densely packed New Yorker homage, The French Dispatch
Meanwhile, Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground documentary blows the roof off of NYFF → Read More
Paul Verhoeven’s bawdy lesbian nun movie makes its way to New York
Benedetta, Red Rocket, The Worst Person In The World, and Vortex all continue their respective directors’ signature styles → Read More
Blue Bayou buries a real-life nightmare under a lot of maudlin Hollywood phoniness
Justin Chon uses every contrivance and cliché in the book (and invents a few more) to sap his deportation melodrama of any life → Read More
In its penultimate week, Brooklyn Nine-Nine disappoints with a funeral and a vow renewal
Jake and Terry play Knives Out with the Boyle family and the Nine-Nine gang must salvage their reform proposal before it's too late → Read More
Riz Ahmed is a rapper battling illness in the surreal, slight Mogul Mowgli
The Sound Of Metal comparisons are unavoidable, but Mogul Mowgli stakes out far different territory → Read More
Craig Robinson returns for a final adventure on this week's Brooklyn Nine-Nine double header
Jake drives an old friend to prison and battles the FBI → Read More
Brooklyn Nine-Nine splits the difference with a novel premise and a tired one
Corrupt cops and parenting woes dominate this week's double header → Read More
Respect makes an unintentional Walk Hard from Aretha Franklin’s extraordinary story
Solid performances can’t save a film so shamelessly invested in stale biopic clichés → Read More
Edgar Wright crafts a loving if overlong tribute to the enigmatic pop group Sparks
The director's enthusiasm is infectious, even when it wears out its welcome → Read More