The Wire

Tanul Thakur The Wire Dec 5, 2022 The Ayushmann Khurrana starrer doesn’t spare anyone, including – and especially – the Indian public and media’s confused, helpless, and toxic relationship with stardom. Go to Full Review An Action Hero (2022) 85% 71%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Nov 29, 2022 Neither scary nor consistently funny... Go to Full Review Bhediya (2022) 62% 86%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Jan 3, 2022 The first had some political consciousness, the second has none. Go to Full Review Bunty Aur Babli 2 (2021) 17% 36%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Dec 6, 2021 The whole enterprise can be summarized in six words: characters bleat, bullets dance, bodies fall. Go to Full Review Antim: The Final Truth (2021) 21% 80%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Oct 19, 2021 Vicky Kaushal turns in a nuanced performance in tune with the film's script. Go to Full Review Sardar Udham (2021) 95% 95%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Sep 14, 2021 Such stark disconnect between audio and video elicits unique exasperation: of watching two bad films at the same time. Go to Full Review Thalaivii (2021) 20% 66%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Aug 24, 2021 When Bell Bottom wasn't shrill or disgusting about its deshbhakti, I felt relieved. Go to Full Review Bellbottom (2021) 54% 44%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Jun 2, 2021 Nikhil Pherwani's debut film dignifies an unacknowledged dream. Go to Full Review Ahaan (2021) 80% - -

Tanul Thakur The Wire Apr 20, 2021 It's an assured performance that distils the thrills and expectations of new-found love - and does so through memorable specificities. It makes perfect sense: Every love story has its own language. Love is, after all, a linguistic detail... Go to Full Review Ajeeb Daastaans (2021) 100% 62%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Mar 29, 2021 Pagglait understands the baffling paradoxes of Indian families, where death can be more revealing than life. Go to Full Review Pagglait (2021) 77% 74%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Mar 10, 2021 Despite some pleasant accomplishments, a meta film needs to be recognised for its essence: that it is an act of self-absorption - and so, the weight of that vanity becomes as important as the film itself... Go to Full Review AK vs AK (2020) 71% 71%

Namrata Joshi The Wire Sep 22, 2020 A Thin Wall has accounts of lives being saved. But it also contains memories of people walking for miles daily, leaving behind graves at every halt, the fear-filled existence in a time of moral vacuum. Go to Full Review A Thin Wall (2015) - - - -

Namrata Joshi The Wire Sep 22, 2020 Meel Patthar focuses on the travails of the working class in an industry that literally drives the economy but has rarely sparked the imagination of filmmakers for a gritty exploration. Go to Full Review Milestone (2020) 85% 75%

Namrata Joshi The Wire Sep 18, 2020 Under the Open Sky eschews the subtlety of Koreeda for a sentimental approach, meandering at times, but the lead actor Koji Yakusho holds it together by becoming one with the character of the yakuza. Go to Full Review Under the Open Sky (2020) 90% - -

Namrata Joshi The Wire Sep 18, 2020 What is genuine is the evocation of loss and a deep sense of anguish. Go to Full Review Apples (2020) 93% 76%

Namrata Joshi The Wire Sep 18, 2020 King's film is a perfect fit for TIFF, in that it exemplifies the values of gender parity and racial equality that the festival has consciously tried to underline through its programming without giving short shrift to artistic merit. Go to Full Review One Night in Miami (2020) 98% 78%

Namrata Joshi The Wire Sep 18, 2020 Most of all, The Way I See It seeks to ask questions like how should the job of the US president be approached and what should the leader of the nation be like? Go to Full Review The Way I See It (2020) 85% 93%

Namrata Joshi The Wire Sep 18, 2020 The vulnerability and responsibility of a celebrity finds a musical expression in Matthew Heineman's The Boy from Medellin... Go to Full Review The Boy From Medellín (2020) 75% 63%

Poulomi Das The Wire Sep 17, 2020 76 Days is an astonishing documentary that chronicles the stoic heroism of exhausted patients, nurses, and doctors in the frontlines of the deadly COVID-19 crisis in Wuhan, the ground zero of its outbreak. Go to Full Review 76 Days (2020) 100% 84%

Tanul Thakur The Wire Jul 13, 2020 The film is marked by a baffling listlessness, a foreign trait in an Anurag Kashyap production. For a thriller, Choked's plot plods. Its dialogues are pedestrian. The characters' desires lack the sting that makes them magnetic Go to Full Review Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai (2020) 54% 52%