Patriot’s Day is the unexceptional Hollywood film that is brought out every now and then to broach the subject of patriotism
04 March 2017You can safely conclude that you have watched yet another mindless action movie
04 March 2017Night Shyamalam cannot resist introducing the supernatural into his films, and so the movie quickly descends to the lower depths of exploitation cinema
25 February 2017What we are given in this film is a generalized and sweeping historical background, embellished with lavishly mounted period sets
24 February 2017Watching ‘Moonlight’ is an experience that stays with you
17 February 2017To set a film almost entirely in the claustrophobic confines of a war machine, and to keep your attention fixed on it, needs high quality writing
17 February 2017CAST: Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki | DIRECTOR: F. Javier Gutiérrez
10 February 2017Replacing Arshad Warsi, who played the lead role earlier, was a marketing decisions to widen the viewership base of the film
10 February 2017The Final Chapter is an unwatchable film, even for diehard fans of the genre
03 February 2017The movie sits uneasily on the dividing line between propaganda and art
03 February 2017Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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