Cinemascope

    Veteran Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski’s  EO  was an unclassifiable viewing experience, considering its bold narrative experimentati...

 Self-reflexive and metatextual elements, quotidian urban settings, rambling alcohol-fuelled conversation, passive-aggressive interactions, ...

 The most intriguing irony defining Barbie is that, it’s a riotous satire of patriarchy, consumerism and the shallow beauty standards that ...

  Oppenheimer – contrary to my apprehensions of muscular and/or hagiographic account of a man who’d helped engineer war crimes and precipit...

 Katia and Maurice Kraft left back a legacy that’s so rich, eventful and fascinating that it’s not surprising that their lives have been cel...

 Werner Herzog, in The Fire Within , didn’t intend to make either a conventional biography or a straightforward hagiography of eminent Frenc...

  Petite Fleur couldn’t have demonstrated a more dramatic departure vis-à-vis Argentina,1985 – the two wildly contrasting films that Santi...

 Does a filmmaker really ever become a martyr at cinema’s altar? While such a statement may appear disingenuous and even pompous in most cas...

 The eponymous Leila in Saeed Roustayi sprawling, ferocious and enthralling Leila’s Brothers – in an ironic elucidation of art imitating li...

 Kelly Reichardt’s delicately strung Showing Up vividly bore the Indie auteur’s signature through its minimalist form, unassuming tone, awk...

 Jordan Peele constructed Nope like a multi-layered cake – wryly revisionist Western, acerbic satire on insatiable consumerism, and delight...

 It was a fun coincidence to watch Kimi and Emily the Criminal back-to-back, whilst on an intercontinental flight, given the interesting p...

  Kimi was a decidedly topical film with its anxiety-ridden, agoraphobic, work-from-home protagonist struggling to segue into the “new norm...

 Romain Gavras demonstrated that he’s his father’s son – his dad being the great Costa-Gavras – with Athena . This rebellious, topical, pole...

 Iconoclastic RJ, audiophile and jazz aficionado Cornel Chiriac hosted the popular music show Metronom in Radio România between 1967 and 19...

  Triangle of Sadness – the third instalment in Östlund’s ‘ Anti-Capitalist Trilogy ’, having been preceded by Force Majeure and The Squar...

 Cristian Mungiu’s proclivity for crafting singularly oppressive and viscerally haunting films harbouring sharp political critique, the rami...

 Scottish director Charlotte Wells’ assured debut film Aftersun is an achingly tender portrayal of memories – which can be alternately wist...

 In March 1978, former Italian PM and Christian Democracy party leader Aldo Moro was kidnapped, held hostage for 55 days and eventually assa...

 There’s something inherently haunting and melancholic about films, books and songs – Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock , Mohiner Ghoraguli’s Se...