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Siraj Syed

Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 
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Angry Birds Movie 2, Review: And angry birdwatchers 2 • Aug 24, 2019 at 11:27 AM
by Siraj Syed

Angry Birds Movie 2, Review: And angry birdwatchers 2 To even begin getting lightly entertained, you will have to sit through the first twenty minutes of Angry Birds Movie 2, which are a cacophonic...

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Peter Ackerman
Eyal Podell
Jonathon E. Stewart
Jason Sudeikis
Josh Gad
Leslie Jones
Bill Hader
Rachel Bloom
Awkwafina
Sterling K. Brown
Eugenio Derbez
Danny McBride
Peter Dinklage
Brooklynn Prince
Tiffany Haddish
Thurop von Orman
John Rice
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Angel Has Fallen, Review: Dad’s Bad, Banning’s Mad, Jennings’s Glad • Aug 22, 2019 at 06:51 PM
by Siraj Syed

Angel Has Fallen, Review: Dad’s Bad, Banning’s Mad, Jennings’s Glad Angel here is the guardian angel of the President of the United States of America, and fallen refers to his being critically...

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Robert Mark Kamen
Matt Cook
Ric Roman Waugh
Creighton Rothenberger
Tim Blake Nelson as Vice-President Kirby hams in Piper Perabo
Radha Mitchell
Jada Pinkett Smith
Helen Thompson
Lance Reddick
David Gentry
Angela Bassett
Nick Nolte Benedikt
Danny Huston
Vladimir Putin
Gerard Butler
Morgan Freeman
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Crawl, Review: Alligator…will it get her? • Aug 22, 2019 at 05:53 AM
by Siraj Syed

Crawl, Review: Alligator…will it get her? If you were to consider making a film about a creature that has equally or more lethal Jaws than sharks, you would have little problem coming up with the...

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Alexandre Aja
Michael Rasmussen
Shawn Rasmussen
Kaya Scodelario
David Pepper
Ross Anderson
Morfyyd Clark
Anson Boon
Jose Palma
George Somner
Ami Metcalf
Annamaria Serda
Savannah Steyn
hurricane
Boston
Florida
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Yomeddine, Review: Disability or this ability? • Aug 20, 2019 at 07:22 AM
by Siraj Syed

Yomeddine, Review: Disability or this ability? Unlikely companions embark on an impossible journey, to trace their roots, hundreds of miles away, on a donkey cart, with little money and barest of...

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Abu Bakr Shawky
Ahmed Abd Elhafiz
bilal
Coptic
Dick Tracy
Dina Emam
Erin Greenwell
Federico Cesca
Francois Chalais
Gulzar
Guru Nanak
islam
Judgement Day
Kitaab
Madonna
Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic
Nubian
Obama
Omar Fadel
Qena
Rady Gamal
Sanjay Suri
Srinivasan Narayanan
vittorio de sica
Warren Beatty
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Batla House, Review: Policeman with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • Aug 15, 2019 at 12:57 PM
by Siraj Syed

Batla House, Review: Policeman with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Distinguishing one police thriller from another is becoming an increasingly difficult task. He is part of an incident/encounter...

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Nikkhil Advani
John Abraham
Anil K. Rastogi
Sonam Arora
John Stewart Eduri
Saumik Mukherjee
Maahir ZaveriManish Chaudhuri
Amruta Sant
Mrunal Takur
Ritesh Shah
Ravi Kishen
Nora Fatehi
Sidharth Bharadwaj
Maan Singh
lieutenant in Yadav’s team while Amruta Sant is seen as the activist leading demonstrations against the Delhi Police. Watch out for a cameo from Anil K. Rastogi
who was wonderful in Mukti Bhawan. Sahidur Rahman as Dilshad Ahmed
Kranti Prakash Jha (good actor wasted in small role) as Adil Ameen
Alok Pandey as Tufail. Faizan Khan as Mohammed Javed
Niranjan Jadhao as Sadiq
Chirag Katrecha as Zia and Yatharth Kansal
Tanishk Bagchi
Neha Kakkar
Tulsi Kumar
B Praak
Prince Dubey
Ankit Tiwari
Dhvani Bhanushali
Gautam G Sharma
Gurpreet Saini
Rochak Kohli
Navraj Hans
Kumaar
Armaan Malik
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