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The Wild Robot (2)
Bougainvillea (4)
Sir (1)
The Apprentice (1)
Paris Has Fallen (1)
Shrinking S02 (1)

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The Wild Robot
Rahul Desai
The Hollywood Reporter India
A Heartfelt ‘Factory Reset’ Of Storytelling

The Wild Robot takes you back to the early days of Finding Nemo and Wall-E, where the joy is rooted in the innocence of imagination rather than the responsibility of the movie-going experience.

THE WILD ROBOT is about an all-purpose robot that turns sentient in the wilderness. After washing up on a forest island, Rozzum “Rozz” 7134 learns to feel and discern once it mothers an orphaned goose and befriends a red fox. I’d say it becomes human, but in the context of where we are today, “it grows a heart” is more accurate.

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Bougainvillea
Sachin Chatte
The Navhind Times Goa
The memory remains

Amal Neerad’s Bougainvillea features an impressive cast, including Kunchacko Boban, Jyothirmay, and Fahadh Faasil; however, the film ultimately flatters to deceive. Faasil is relegated to a tertiary role, likely either to help out his friends or for a fat paycheck – probably the former. Pitched as a psychological thriller, the film becomes exasperating due to its screenplay and overall execution.

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The Wild Robot
Sachin Chatte
The Navhind Times Goa
Kya bot hain!

The Wild Robot, inspired by Peter Brown’s 2016 novel of the same name, is a film that skillfully balances its emotional elements, resulting in a gratifying experience for both children and adults. While the notion of a robot experiencing emotions is not entirely original, it is the narrative and its execution that truly set this film apart. Achieving the right emotional resonance, whether from a human or a robot, is crucial, and Chris Sanders has struck gold with this film.

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Sir
Kirubhakar Purushothaman
News 18
Vemal’s Period Movie Belongs To The Era It Is Set In

Directed by actor-director Bose Venkat, Sir is about a family’s relentless and devastating crusade for rural education. Like many such Tamil films, it has 'only' its heart at the right place.

Sir is one of those formulaic Tamil movies with a strong cause or message it wants to put across and doesn’t mind doing so at the cost of being a didactic and dated. The style, writing, brevity, and everything that makes up for a superior form take a backseat in Sir as Bose Venkat prefers coming across as an activist to a fine filmmaker. While Sir has a noble cause at its core, the execution makes it a yarnfest, and instead of getting the catharsis such social commentary aims to provide, the film invokes a sense of guilt for feeling so.

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The Apprentice
Shomini Sen
Wion
Jeremy Strong delivers stand out performance in Abbasi's film on Donald Trump

The Apprentice shows Trump (played stupendously well by Sebastian Stan) in his usual megalomaniac, ruthless avatar – an image that Trump has over the years created – painstakingly, if I may add so – but also humanises him to a certain extent.

Former United States president and presidential candidate Donald Trump went on a rant recently on filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s latest film The Apprentice, which narrates the Republican’s initial years as a real estate giant in New York and his relationship with attorney Roy Cohn. Perhaps, Trump’s reaction stems from information that is fed to him because had he watched the film, he may have only objected to certain aspects of Abbasi’s provocative film and not ranted about it in its entirety.

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Paris Has Fallen
Sonal Pandya
Times Now, Zoom
Spinoff Series Of Absorbing Action Film Franchise Has Formidable Antagonist

The small screen version of the Has Fallen franchise is off to an intriguing start with a daunting villain.

Paris Has Fallen is the first in the franchise that won’t feature Gerard Butler’s Secret Service agent Mike Banning. The actor will continue on with the character in the films; however, this spinoff series forges its own identity with new protagonists and a deadly plot in this European adventure. With only the first two episodes premiering so far, Paris Has Fallen has set up an interesting scenario in which the villain has had the upper hand; it remains to be seen how and when the ‘fall’ will come.

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Shrinking S02
Sonal Pandya
Times Now, Zoom
Jason Segel, Harrison Ford's Optimistic Comedy About Flawed Therapists Charms Again

From the makers of Ted Lasso, the comedy series starring Jason Segel returns to find its characters grappling with life's issues head-on.

Created by Bill Lawrence, star Jason Segel and Brett Goldstein, Shrinking focuses on a grieving therapist who decides to change his approach with his patients. Becoming more proactive, he becomes more involved in the lives of those around, both to his detriment and betterment. The second season of Shrinking charms with its loveable, goofball characters and some unexpected new faces.

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Bougainvillea
Vishal Menon
The Hollywood Reporter India
A Gripping Mind Game With Stellar Acts

The film potently uses the unreliable narrator trope to fully immerse the audience into a story about “gaslighting” and domestic abuse.

Amal Neerad and his co-writer Lajo Jose (whose story this film is based on) know how far to push the unreliable narrator trope. Not only is their protagonist Reethu (Jyothirmayi in her return) suffering from both retrograde and anterograde amnesia, but we’re seeing the film through her perspective for the most part. What makes this film even more complex is how quickly we get the feeling that we cannot rely on the people Reethu relies on to make sense of her chilling universe.

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Bougainvillea
Vishal Menon
The Hollywood Reporter India
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Bougainvillea
S. R. Praveen
The Hindu
An unsatisfying psychological thriller

Amal Neerad’s film, starring Fahadh Faasil, Jyothirmayi, and Kunchacko Boban, carries much of the imperfections of the original material and squanders even its neatly crafted buildup

Among all the flaws a writer can imagine for their protagonist, an unreliable memory throws up quite a few fascinating possibilities. In Bougainvillea, Reethu (Jyothirmayi) is almost always unsure of anything that happens right in front of her eyes. For a fairly good period, we are also caught in a similar dilemma — as to whether what we are seeing through her eyes is for real; whether she has painted a Sunflower or yet another Bougainvillea.

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