Prahlad Srihari
Tomatometer-approved critic
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)
56%
“If Blazing Saddles confronted racial stereotypes by making a black sheriff police a white town, Paws of Fury tones down its satirical edge and irreverence for a neutered and declawed interspecies lark.” –
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Aug 29, 2022
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Persuasion (2022)
30%
“Persuasion hamstrings Austen's lyrical reflections and snappy exchanges with deadened modern jargon in a blatant attempt to remould the story as befits Netflix's demographic pandering.” –
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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The Gray Man (2022)
45%
“In a world where entertainment can be reduced to an algorithm, gray denotes dispassionate neutrality instead of vari-hued complexity, cold industrialisation instead of creative sophistication. Which pretty much sums up Netflix's new pseudo-blockbuster.
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News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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Memoria (2021)
90%
“A bewitching whisper of a film that leaves the imprint of a haunting banger. ” –
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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Carter (2022)
32%
“When a oner has been stitched together with digital trickery, it is easy to get caught playing "Spot the cut." But in the case of Carter, the trickery is so blatantly obvious we are deprived of even that pleasure.” –
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Aug 29, 2022
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Crimes of the Future (2022)
80%
“Cronenberg cuts open his own body of work and excises the parts he needs to Frankenstein a new beast. He gives us his own twisted logical extension of how the human body might need to subvert the biological status quo as a sustainable measure.” –
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Aug 29, 2022
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Belfast (2021)
86%
“What Branagh fails to understand is there is a difference between filtering an observed experience through a child's point-of-view, and treating the viewers like they were children.” –
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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Compartment No. 6 (2021)
93%
“Where Compartment No. 6 differs from It Happened One Night and Before Sunrise is that its set-up isn't in service of a life-changing romance, but a study into class and cultural differences framed via a contrast of appearances vs reality.” –
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
29%
“Colin Trevorrow cannot access a single iota of magic of the Steven Spielberg classic that started it all — without resorting to cheap nostalgia. He still tries though, but it's the equivalent of a T-rex chasing its own tail with its tiny-ass arms.” –
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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The Girl and the Spider (2021)
93%
“The film spins a web of unexpressed emotions in conflict, weaving its magic through a waltz of loneliness and longing, attraction and rejection, in confined places where bodies sometimes move to the same rhythms, sometimes in opposition.” –
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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This Much I Know To Be True (2022)
100%
“It continues the narrative from One More Time with Feeling, framing Cave's acceptance of his grief. Watching the film through the lens of its emotional prequel is unavoidable. The mournful air may not be as concentrated, but it lingers in the shadows.
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News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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Lightyear (2022)
74%
“A dubious feat of reverse engineering an IP into a commercial for itself, geared to administer doses of nostalgia to the Toy Story faithful and expand the lore of a character into a potential saga of his own.” –
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
85%
“The movie's good intentions are so myopic, it is trapped in the same bubble as its lead character.” –
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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Faya Dayi (2021)
97%
“Through the lens of khat harvesting, Beshir serves a portal into the plains of Harar where the plant is both a boon and a bane. https://www.news9live.com/entertainment/faya-dayi-film-review-188401” –
News9 Live (India)
Aug 29, 2022
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The Nest (2020)
90%
4/5
“It’s not ghosts that haunt the O’Haras though. It’s lies and deception. Things unravel, not with any dramatic acceleration, but with a lingering inevitability. ” –
Firstpost
Aug 15, 2022
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In the Heights (2021)
94%
2.5/5
“Intimacy is established via product placement, as flirting happens with Tide-To-Go pens. If only they could be used to erase all the film’s missteps?” –
Firstpost
Aug 9, 2022
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
38%
1/5
“The film's attempt to rejig a creatively insolvent series proves to be as futile as its killer's attempts to reform the criminal justice system.” –
Firstpost
Aug 9, 2022
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Promising Young Woman (2020)
90%
2.5/5
“While Promising Young Woman showcases Fennell’s undeniable strengths as a visual artist, it can’t hide her glaring weaknesses as a short-sighted allegorist. ” –
Firstpost
Aug 9, 2022
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The Forever Purge (2021)
49%
1/5
“The Forever Purge is simply the latest in this never-ending franchise to leverage the deep-seated unease in a politically divided America to peddle exploitative power fantasies.” –
Firstpost
Aug 8, 2022
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Sweet Girl (2021)
24%
2.5/5
“Toggling between a subversion of the ‘70s man-against-the-system conspiracy thriller and a grief-propelled payback actioner, Sweet Girl is yet another B-movie-ish action distraction boxed in by the Netflix algorithm.” –
Firstpost
Aug 8, 2022
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The Croods: A New Age (2020)
76%
2.5/5
“Don’t go questioning how the silly world-building details make any canonical sense in the grander scheme of biological evolution. Tuck those questions away to the back of your head and simply bask in these zany delights.” –
Firstpost
Aug 8, 2022
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Cinderella (2021)
41%
1.5/5
“If the trailer and a mouse-costumed James Corden’s aggressive pelvic thrusting at Los Angeles drivers weren’t red flags, let’s assure you: Camila Cabello’s Cinderella is banana-ooh-na-nas.” –
Firstpost
Aug 8, 2022
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Old (2021)
50%
2.5/5
“Add Old to the unrealised potential column of M Night Shyamalan's filmography.” –
Firstpost
Aug 8, 2022
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The Guilty (2021)
74%
2/5
“The Guilty feels like a movie only meant to pander to subscribers who still cannot abide by subtitles.” –
Firstpost
Aug 8, 2022
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A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
91%
3.5/5
“What makes it a worthy follow-up is the same precise use and disuse of sound. The boundary between the screen and the audience disappears in the silence. ” –
Firstpost
Aug 8, 2022
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