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Hot take: The Sky is Pink
'The Sky is Pink' (2019) is a fictionalised biopic, telling the inspirational story of a family dealing with their daughter's terminal...

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Hot take: War
Both the title and the trailer of War (2019) make the intent clear: this is an action film and star vehicle not to be taken seriously....
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Hot take: Last Flag Flying
'Last Flag Flying' is a film about three war veterans that get thrown together many years later under unfortunate circumstances. The...

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Hot take: Chhichhore
'Chhichhore' (2019) (dir. Nitesh Tiwari) is a campus film told entirely in flashbacks. 90s nostalgia is mined for those of us who lived...

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Hot take: A Suitable Girl
'A Suitable Girl' (2017) is a documentary that follows the trials and tribulations of three young girls and their families as they search...

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Hot take: Article 15
‘Article 15’ (2019), directed by Anubhav Sinha, is a stark and unflinching look at caste dynamics in India that manages to find room for...

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Hot take: Mard ko Dard Nahin Hota
'Mard ko Dard Nahin Hota' (2018) is a zany, comic-book style action comedy powered by director Vasan Bala and his writing team's crazily...

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Hot take: Soni
In 'Soni' (2018), director Ivan Ayr takes us into the lives of two female police officers trying to run a decoy operation in nighttime...

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Hot take: Badla
'Badla' (2019) is the Hindi-language remake of the 2016 Spanish hit 'Contratiempo' (available for viewing on Netflix). After catching the...

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Hot take: Gully Boy
‘Gully Boy’ (2019) (dir. Zoya Akhtar) is that rarity: a film that deserves every bit of its pre-release hype. Set in Dharavi, the giant...

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Hot take: Ek Ladki ko Dekha to Aisa Laga
‘Ek Ladki to Dekha to Aisa Laga’ (2019) is first and foremost a brave and well-intentioned film. It knows not to tackle deep-seated...

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Hot take: Searching
'Searching' is a thriller about a father going in search of his missing adolescent daughter. Set in today's day and age, all the...

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Hot take: Christopher Robin
'Christopher Robin' takes the timeless characters of AA Milne and weaves a whole new story around them. Christopher Robin, played here by...

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Hot take: Roma
‘Roma’ is a strikingly intimate, quiet and absorbing look at the life of a maid in the Mexico of the 70s. Fellini’s mark is present in...

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Hot take: Kedarnath
‘Kedarnath’ (2018) (dir. Abhishek Kapoor) is an age-old star-crossed lovers story set against the backdrop of the devastating floods that...

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Hot take: Badhaai Ho
‘Badhaai Ho' (2018) is a surprisingly quiet film about a family struggling to cope with a woman's late pregnancy. The premise is...

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Hot take: Aamhi Doghi
In one of the first few scenes of 'Aamhi Doghi' (2018) we see the young female protagonist as a child, listening to a speech about...

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Hot take: Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald
‘Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald’, the second in the installment of the pre-Harry Potter franchise, is a frustrating...

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Hot take: Nancy
‘Nancy’ is a psychological thriller about a woman who lives out her life vicariously. In a dead-end job with an ill mother, you wouldn’t...

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Hot take: Vision
There is a particular word in Japanese to describe “forest-bathing”, which is touted to be a cure for depression. ‘Vision’ takes this...

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