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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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Seasoned with Love: The last suppers • Apr 15, 2019 at 08:33 PM
by Siraj Syed

Seasoned with Love: The last suppers How long does it take to commit two murders and get away unscathed? Fourteen minutes, according to director Lakshmi R. Iyer. Infidelity and Murder are the...

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Lakshmi R. Iyer
Sudhanshu Pandey
Flora Saini
Richa Sony Sumbhaniya
iRealities
Hungama.com Play
Appa
Wrong Mistake
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Hellboy, Review: Unapologetic, ugly, bloody mayhem; who’s complaining? • Apr 12, 2019 at 11:55 AM
by Siraj Syed

Hellboy, Review: Unapologetic, ugly, bloody mayhem; who’s complaining? This hell of a film, mutatis mutandis, might have come from either stable, Marvel or DC. As it happens, it owes its genesis to...

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Joel Harlow
Daniel Dae Kim
Thomas Haden Church
Benjamin Wallfisch
Motley Crue
Alice Cooper
Stephen Graham
Douglas Tait
Neil Marshall
Mike Mignola
Guillermo Del Toro
David Harbour
Ian McSahane
Sasha Lane
Joun Hurt
Penelope Mitchell
Sophie Okonedo
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Pet Sematary, Review: Grave errors • Apr 11, 2019 at 05:25 PM
by Siraj Syed

Pet Sematary, Review: Grave errors Like most horror films, Pet Sematary begins with a family relocating to a remote house, near a forest, thereby extending an invitation to the supernatural to...

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Suzy Stingl
Sonia Maria Chirila
Alyssa Brooke
stephen king
solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jeff Buhler
Matt Greenberg
David Kajganich
Jason Clarke
John Lithgow
Jeté Laurence
Hugo Lavoie
Lucas Lavoie
Obssa Ahmed
Brad Greenquist
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Romeo Akbar Walter (RAW), Review: Uncooked meal, raw deal • Apr 04, 2019 at 04:37 PM
by Siraj Syed

Romeo Akbar Walter (RAW), Review: Uncooked meal, raw deal Espionage, as a film genre, is more than 84 years old. A master, no less than Alfred Hitchcock himself, made The 39 Steps in 1935. So it is...

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Aashit Chatterjee
Alfred Hitchcock
Alka AminShadab Amjad Khan
Anil George
Ashok Punjabi
bangladesh
Ishraq Eba
Jackie Shroff
John Abraham
Mouni Roy
Mushtaq Kak
pakistan
Purnendu Bhattacharya
Rabbi Shergill
Raghubir Yadav
Rajesh Shringarpure
Ravindra Kaushik
Robbie Grewal
Shadab Amjad Khan
Shahid Mallya
Shreyansh Pandey
Sikander Kher
Sohail Sen
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Agnès Varda: Diminutive doyenne of the French New Wave dead at 90 • Apr 03, 2019 at 07:10 AM
by Siraj Syed

Agnès Varda: Diminutive doyenne of the French New Wave dead at 90 She would have turned 91 in two months, but breast cancer claimed her last week. The end came at her Paris home. Till the end, she...

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Alain Resnais
Black Panthers
Bonnaire
Cinévardaphoto
Cleo From 5 to 7
Faces Places
Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema
Jacques Demy
Jacquot de Nantes
Le Bonheur
Le Point courte
Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse
Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse deux ans après
Les plages d'Agnès
Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier
Rosalie
Some Widows of Noirmoutier
The Beaches of Agnès
The Gleaners and I
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
The Vagabond
The World of Jacques Demy
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Visages Villages
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