If you lower your taste several notches, you might find this slapstick film funny
10 July 2012It’s great to have a brand new Spider-Man instead of another boring sequel
04 July 2012A startingly original film with entertaining conversations and settings
02 July 2012A cloyingly sweet story gets stumped trying to bridge a kiddie cricket fantasy with an adult automobile romance
25 June 2012When a film’s reference point is bad cinema, you end up with a noxious cipher like this one
08 June 2012Josh Brolin is an inspired choice as the young Tommy Lee Jones. But the one-liners, the mainstay of the franchise, are too far apart
30 May 2012This film has a sense of humour that cuts across class and cerebral levels
24 April 2012Brahma 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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