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Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

In Mathew Vaughn's entertainingly silly toffs-meets-chavs spy comedy, a bespoke tailoring shop in London serves as the secret headquarters…

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Review of Dolly Ki Doli (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

The movie's greatest advantage is its business-like interest in racing to the end credits. Hindi romcoms usually stretch on like historical epics…

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Review of Big Eyes (2014)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

The 106-minute drama is always watchable, and works no less and no more than a two-dimensional portrait that catches the eye and suggests deeper…

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Review of This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

The Altmans might be way ahead of the Osbournes and Kardashians in terms of letting their private moments hang out, but the movie is as profound…

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Review of Tanu Weds Manu: Returns (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Why Tanu wed Manu was a riddle. In this movie, why Kusum adores Manu will remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of all time…

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Review of Surkhaab (2014)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Surkhaab is a sincere and well-intentioned exploration of the perils and pressures involved in clandestine border-crossing…

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Review of Dil Dhadakne Do (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

The travails of the poor little rich were more sharply explored in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding, which similarly used a captive setting to herd…

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Review of Shamitabh (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Balki has a unique feel for comic soufflés, but into his third film, he still hasn't overcome his tendency to over-elaborate plot detail through…

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Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

The parallel universe of men, half-men, dwarves, monsters, wizards, evil spirits, and benign forces has been deeply satisfying, but it needn't…

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Review of Run All Night (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

The action is brutal and well executed, and tension is an end into itself in director Jaume Collet-Serra's hands…

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Review of PK (2014)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Good intentions don't automatically translate into absorbing cinema…

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Review of Te3n (2016)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Siddiqui and Balan valiantly try to inject energy into their sketchy characters, but the overall lack of momentum in the screenplay by Suresh…

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Review of Warcraft (2016)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

The performances are solid, given the banality of the material, and the special effects are impressive, but there is little in Warcraft that…

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Review of Ek Paheli Leela (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Of all the miscasting howlers in the movie, [Leone's] is the biggest…

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Review of Action Jackson (2014)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Ultra-macho drivel starring Ajay Devgn in two roles, each indistinguishable from the other…

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Review of Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Directed by Eric Darnell and Simon J Smith, Penguins of Madagascar is relentlessly madcap, happily all over the place, and almost awesome in…

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Review of Badlapur (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Raghu is as solid as Siddiqui's Laiq is fluid…

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Review of Guddu Rangeela (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Humour shows up when it shouldn't, and when everything seems to be going downhill, the fake weapons supplier enters the picture…

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Review of Chappie (2015)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

Blomkamp and Tatchell aim for the wicked subversions that elevated Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop, but Chappie shoots in too many directions…

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Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 20 Jun 2016

The 123-minute movie is a smooth, attractive, absorbing and often moving examination of conjugal matters, but it's also conventional and respectful…

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