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Namrata Joshi

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Biography:

Winner of India's National Award for Best Film Critic for 2004, she has contributed to several film journals and anthologies and recently came out with her first book, "Reel India: Cinema off the Beaten Track." She has been a member of the Fipresci critics' juries at numerous international film festivals. She has covered the Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Pingyao International Film festival and International Film Festival and Awards Macao. She has been on the selection committee at the International Film Festival of India, Goa, and on the juries at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival and International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala. A winner of the Charles Wallace India Trust-Iqbal Sarin memorial fellowship, she has also been the winner of the British Chevening Scholarship for Indian Journalists.

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Gamak Ghar (2019) “A poignant ode to the village home...” – The Hindu Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Caught by the Tides (2024) 97% “As past, present and future collide, much of Caught by the Tides might seem like what we have already seen in Zhangke's enviable body of work. Yet it has a freshness and power that is uniquely its own. ” – The New Indian Express Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Mongrel (2024) 100% “Mongrel leaves one with a sombre, sobering, ambiguous feeling—of rare grace amid utter despair.” – The New Indian Express Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Armand (2024) 75% “Armand begins on an intriguing note but can’t sustain it for long. It piques interest but isn’t satisfying enough. The twists and turns of the plot feel showy and contrived rather than organic...” – The New Indian Express Sep 24, 2024 Full Review An Unfinished Film (2024) 73% “It’s the ominous build-up to the lockdown that has the characteristic urgency, tension, and suspense associated with Lou Ye’s cinema. It is the part that is gripping, involving as well as emotionally exhausting—that feeling of being trapped...” – The New Indian Express Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Mexico 86 (2024) 93% “Eventually, Deraspe underlines a simple fact: life is far from perfect or smooth, whatever be our place, our calling, or our attitude towards life. It's the decisions we make that are most crucial.” – The New Indian Express Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 72% “The musical talent helps bring the catchy score of singer Camille and composer Clement Ducol and the energetic choreography of Damien Jalet to life. It’s the musical spectacle that truly makes this movie a roller coaster ride.” – The New Indian Express Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Quiet Life (2024) 94% “A family on screen that feels like a real family, in both happiness and despair.” – The New Indian Express Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Mon Inséparable (2024) “My Everything is an unassuming, bittersweet film about the ties that bind us with enormous love and care but can also prove a constraint and throttle us.” – The New Indian Express Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Superboys of Malegaon (2024) 88% “It's an exploration of these fellowships and solidarities, the reciprocity and admiration that went into the making of Malegaon cinema, that give the film its emotional heft.” – The New Indian Express Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Dead Dead Full Dead (2024) “Ultimately, Dead Dead Full Dead tries hard to play for laughs, but doesn’t even manage to land a chuckle.” – Screen International Sep 19, 2024 Full Review Crumb Catcher (2023) 87% “Promising more than it is able to deliver, it’s a case of a genre indie that stops short of becoming a kitschy B Grade classic.” – The New Indian Express Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Who Do I Belong To (2024) 69% “Who Do I Belong To pivots on the mood and atmospherics. The eerie, haunting, surreal images drawn from Aicha’s prophetic nightmares and the extreme, sombre closeups of her actors’ freckled faces come together to assuredly construct the tragic reality.” – The New Indian Express Jul 17, 2024 Full Review Cu Li Never Cries (2024) “Cu Li Never Cries is meditative, contemplative cinema about the longing for stability within the family, society and the country.” – The New Indian Express Jul 17, 2024 Full Review Black Dog (2024) 97% “The film does tend to sag a bit towards the end, could have been more crisp and less sappy and melodramatic. But Guan Hu largely tells it with great control and deftness. Black Dog is riveting in its own unique idiosyncratic way. ” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review Universal Language (2024) 96% “It's difficult to find suitable words to describe Matthew Rankin's Persian-language, Canadian film, Universal Language, without diminishing its original vision and singular whimsicality.” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review When The Light Breaks (2024) 96% “Pivotal, of course, is Hall's off-the-wall yet extremely likeable presence as Una. There's a weariness to her in having travelled the world and lived out of suitcases for five years with her parents...” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review The Story of Souleymane (2024) 100% “Lojkine’s narrative is pacy and moves like an edge-of-the-seat thriller. However, it switches effortlessly between the fiction and documentary aesthetic, largely following the verite style of filmmaking...” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% “Unlike Rasoulof’s previous outing, the astute, potent, lyrical, and moving There is No Evil, Seed of the Sacred Fig left me a tad incredulous. But then I wondered about how his own vicissitudes of destiny are a case of truth being stranger than fiction.” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% “From disgust to laughter to tears, Baker audaciously makes you traverse an entire range of emotions. ” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% 4/5 “...a meditative, almost spiritual evocation of the human condition at large...” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review The Second Act (2024) 74% “Dupieux is characteristically abrupt, absurd, eccentric, indulges in ingenuities, is playful with gags and anarchic with the material on hand.” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 83% “I found Ali Abbasi's The Apprentice curiously tame. Given the filmmaker's talk about giving political cinema its due place in the light of growing fascism, I expected a far more irreverent film.” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% “It’s a cinema that is edgy and plays with excesses. Certainly not everybody’s cup of tea but one that can’t be ignored. It is riveting, in fact.” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% “While it has you in its grip initially, it gradually loses its way amid marauding tribes, lynch mobs and innumerable chases through the sand dunes on souped-up vehicles. There are moments that take your breath away but don't add up to pack in a wallop.” – The New Indian Express Jul 10, 2024 Full Review
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