Cinemascope

 In Irish playwright turned filmmaker Martin McDonagh’s captivating debut film In Bruges , Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson had portrayed a...

 The gold standard for autobiographical cinematic representations of directors’ coming-of-age as cinephiles and their journeys into filmmaki...

 Turning grim, serious and incredibly tragic historical incidents/episodes into funny and idiosyncratic comedies is either a very brave crea...

 Clair Denis’ Both Sides of the Blade portrays the sequence of events upon the sudden return of an old flame, which leads to a turbulent lo...

  Red Africa – a kaleidoscopic compilation of astounding footage – operated in the porous intersection of political reportage, myth making ...

 The celebrated photographer Nan Goldin’s fascinating life has been one of profound personal tragedies, furious defiance, feminist agency, c...

 Societal conservatism and patriarchy combated with female solidarity and defiance in Ali Asgari’s Until Tomorrow . Its focus on burning soc...

 Jonathan Perel, in his riveting investigative journalism and docu-essay Corporate Accountability , had catalogued how organizations had col...

 Sajimon Prabhakar merged the sub-genre of disaster/survival movies – one that’s not very common in Indian cinema – with strong social comme...

 Vipin Das’ darkly humorous film – its playful title, by ironically referencing to a line from the national anthem, highlighted how women ar...

  Pada is that enthralling “political thriller based on true events” where all the three components of the sub-genre worked brilliantly bot...

 In his nuanced, compelling, politically urgent and deeply solemn reportage essay While We Watched , Vinay Shukla freely traversed from the ...

 Seidl had conceived Rimini and Sparta – his diptych centred around two emotionally and geographically dislocated brothers with broken mor...

 The hulking, hustling, hard-drinking, debonair, has-been Richie Bravo (Michael Thomas) – a middle-aged lothario perennially recalling his p...

 Swedish documentarian Magnus Gertten’s remarkable found footage film Nelly & Nadine didn’t just tell an extraordinary story of queer l...

 Mitra Farahani is Iranian by descent and Parisian by residence; further, she produced Godard’s The Image Book and has been involved in the...

    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...